The error I reported on the app "Ebb Tide" had nothing to do with local winds and currents. The app was simply reporting a seriously wrong tide condition. For years I used a West Marine purchased Tide Watch that provided a tide prediction based on the highest tide predicted that year which you had to enter into the watch during setup. After that the watch gave a fairly accurate prediction all year. Good enough for my purposes. Then I switched to the cell phone app which worked great until yesterday. I draw 5-1/2' and we have 9' tides here. One boat length straight out from my slip the water is 1' deep at low and 10' at high. One day I observed a kayak run aground out there! The water is so murky that you often cannot see the bottom even when it is only 1 foot deep. Will try "Tides" next.
