Perigean Tides (1 Viewer)

[lextechautomotive]

Supposed to be even higher tonight, wife and i are going to go for a boat ride this evenuing.
Some pics of our back yard last night.

 

[BBQ BOY]

DANG!!!! Need to go look at my dock. My boat may have floated of the lift.

 

[Brock]

yeah i remember those tides when I lived on Wadmalaw growing up and hell up to 4 years ago......would go over the main dock which was usually a couple feet above the water even at highest tide under full moon with strong offshore winds. It is a trip for sure....

 

[lextechautomotive]

DANG!!!! Need to go look at my dock. My boat may have floated of the lift.

Funny you mention that, over the last few years we have as a neighborhood, including myself have lost boats temporarily due to these tides. Wake up 1 morning and scratch your head as to where i parked my boat last night. Later to find it a couple miles up the creek, some have even had the Coast Guard to call their homes to inform them there boats have been found adrift.

 

[BELMONT148]

Yeh, it was fun driving the Camry through about an 10" current across Long Point rd. tonight. I let a Jetta go through first, and figured if he made it I could.

Jeremy

 

[GregFrench]

I did the Long Point Road drive the other day! The whole time I was thinking where the best place for the photographer would have been.

 

[IndianDoc]

Land Lubber

From the title and the pic's I assumed this tide to be related to the closest position of the moon. I did go confirm that was was the fact,as I was not real sure at first. See the club has educational benifits beyond Toyota's. Hope that next tide did not float your boat in a bad way. Neat pic's and info thanks illuminating a old land lubber to a new and neat costal fact.

 

[dbenke]

The moon was in perigee AND the summer solstice at the same time. I built docks for about 12 years, and I never saw a tide above 8 feet. The weather channel said between 8.2 and 8.5. Makes the creeks look like lakes.