Warning to those thinking about paddling in Alaska this summer.The company who publishes the majority of the tide books in Southeast Alaska has discovered a major series of errors in their 2008 tide books. The tide books are sold as advertising to various business such as the Chiropractic office my wife works for. The explanation for the error is that on the days when there are three tide changes as opposed to four the computer got confused and set the wrong typeface. (In these tide book PM tides are in bold and AM tides are not.) Hence some AM tides are labeled as PM and vice versa. The first error occurred on January 7th and was noticed quickly by mariners. The company does not plan to reissue new books but instead have published on their web site the corrections. www.tidebooks.com The Sitka tides had the most errors so paddler be ware. As Dylan sang "Oh the tides they are a changing" Funny how we hear what we want to here. Bob *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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