Barnegat Light to Atlantic City, New Jersey Tide & Time Clock Carved Birch Coa

  

A tide and time clock for Barnegat Light to Atlantic City: a 16.5 inch carved birch face with the shore etched in from Long Beach Island and Barnegat Light down past Brigantine to Atlantic City, one movement keeping the hour and another tracking the pull of the moon. This stretch is all barrier islands and back bays: Long Beach Island with Old Barney at its north tip, Little Egg Harbor and Great Bay behind, and Brigantine and Atlantic City to the south. The tide pushes through Barnegat, Little Egg, and Absecon Inlets and sets the fishing on every one. The tide hand rotates once every 12 hours and 25 minutes to match the lunar cycle, so after one setting against local high water it keeps the rhythm, while the time hands cover everything the water does not decide.

Right for an LBI shore house, a Brigantine boater, or anyone who has fished the Barnegat jetty. Long Beach Island is carved in relief on the Long Beach Island 3D chart. Wood charts of real waters, cut from survey data. 16.5 in diameter, tide and time movements.

Set the tide hand once at local high tide. Laser-etched birch face, AA battery, ready to hang.

Every contour follows real bathymetric survey data. Each water is cut from its own chart to its own shape, so the shoreline, shoals and channels are the real ones. The pale land is the bare wood. The water is stained by hand and darkens as the bottom falls away.

Grain and tone vary slightly from piece to piece, so no two are exactly alike. Questions about a specific water, a size or a frame are welcome. Real people read every message. More waters from Nautical Lake Art.