>
> p.47: "The moons' pull had modest effect on the huge seas of Stratos.
> Still, tradition favored setting sail with Durga tide. After last night's
> excitement, the predawn departure was less poignant than Maia
> had expected. (...)"
>
> By "modest" I suspect that this is a comparison with _Earth_, or
> maybe with suntide. Comparing with Earth would be more or less
> out of character, as everything until now has been presented as
> Maia's point of view. And what is the meaning of "setting sail with
> Durga tide"? If Durga was Full, predawn would be "low tide", rising
> to "high tide" at noon, with Stratos-S + Durga effects combining
> to maximum.
>
I don't believe that high tide necessarily comes when
you think it should. Your calculations work if one is on an
island in the middle of a large ocean. But the tides interact
with the continents (particularly bays and gulfs!), and it
throws the time of high tide off. If one really cared, the
thing to do would be to look at what happens at places
on Earth which are similarly located to Port Sanger.
---David
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