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Angling Assistant

 

 

Some helpful tools for your angling needs.

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Weather
Tides
Weight Converter
Beufort Scale
Size Limits

Weather

General conditions:
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Sailing conditions
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Sailing Conditions

Tides
QHM

LIVE Tides can be viewed from the QHM website: http://www.qhmportsmouth.com/port-tides 
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Or for other areas and a graph layout of tides you can use the government website: http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk

Tides are FREE up to 7 days from today. Future and past predictions are available for a small fee.

 

Instructions: Click the link above. When the new window opens choose the amount of days (up to 7) that you would like to see the forecast over. Click on the "Predict" button. On the next page be sure to choose "Daylight savings" to "+1" on the drop down menu at the top right of the results. You may also alter the day amount here. The tide times and heights are shown in graphical and table form. When you have finished close the window.

 

Daylight Saving Warning:

EasyTide predictions are based on the standard time of the country concerned.

For the UK this is GMT and the daylight saving offset should be set to 1 hour for British Summer time

 


Weight Converter


Choose your unit at the first line and enter the a number in the box beside it, then click the convert button.

It automatically converts your choice to all units.

UnitNumber
Gram:
Kilogram:
Ounce:
Pound:
Beufort Scale

 

Approximate Conversion mph to Knots

1 mph = 0.8689 Knots

BEAUFORT WINDSPEED DESCRIPTION SEA CONDITION
FORCE KNOTS
       
0 0 Calm Sea like a mirror
1 1 - 3 Light Air Ripples but without foam crests
2 4 - 6 Light Breeze Small Wavelets. Crests do not break
3 7 - 10 Gentle Breeze Large Wavelets. Perhaps scattered white horses
4 11 - 16 Moderate Breeze Small waves. Fairly frequent white horses 
5 17 - 21 Fresh Breeze Moderate waves, many white horses
6 22 - 27 Strong Breeze Large waves begin to form: white foam crests, probably spray 
7 28 - 33 Near Gale Sea heaps up and white foam blown in streaks along the direction of the wind
8 34 - 40 Gale Moderate high waves, crests  begin to break into spindrift
9 41 - 47 Strong Gale High waves. Dense foam along the direction of the wind. Crests of waves begin to roll over. Spray may affect visibility
10 48 - 55 Storm Very high waves with long overhanging crests. The surface of the sea takes a white appearance. The tumbling of the sea becomes heavy and shock like. Visibility affected
11 56 - 63 Violent Storm Exceptionally high waves. The sea is completely covered with long white patches of foam lying in the direction of the wind. Visibility affected
12 64+ Hurricane The air is filled with foam and spray. Sea completely white with driving spray. Visibility very seriously affected 


Size Limits



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