NYCkayaker Proxigean Tide Report -

[bonnie13 at earthlink.net]

Well, after all the debate the proxigean high was a bit of a bust. Last time there was a proxigean tide (December 08), we had had clear evidence, in the form of a high-water mark, that the Paerdegat basin had busted it's banks at some point when we weren't around to see it - 

Photographic proof: http://frogma.blogspot.com/2008/12/jamaica-bay-low-water-2-days-after.html - 

We were hoping to actually witness that this time. Didn't happen. One of my clubmates had been talking to somebody at the Coast Guard yesterday & they'd mentioned that the high wasn't going to be that notable, no real flooding - the extreme they were worried about was the low that happened in the wee small hours of last night.  I'd noticed a low-water advisory in the marine forecast yesterday. 

We still had a great paddle this morning. Very cold & I don't recall ever collecting that much ice on deck (the build-up was bad enough that at one point I popped my sprayskirt purely to make sure I still could if I needed to), but it was nice being out there.  



-----Original Message-----
>From: David Gottlieb <peekamoose at optonline.net>
>Sent: Jan 30, 2010 3:47 PM
>To: Lee Reiser/Leona Fontaine <lee060 at earthlink.net>
>Cc: nyckayaker <nyckayaker at rockandwater.net>
>Subject: Re: NYCkayaker Big Tides Saturday!
>
>Lee, What Bonnie referred us to was a chart on  The Proxigean Spring Tide,
>which is an unusually very high tide and also occurs at most once every 1.5
>years...