Watch notes
What the water did against what we said it would. Written by whoever was on watch.
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The night Feltwater Ness had no low water at all
A neap, a hard southwesterly and 992 millibars. The prediction said 0.38 m of range and the gauge never came below a metre. The prediction was not wrong — it was answering a different question.
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Why there are no depth contours on any of our sheets
A contour is a line drawn between two soundings by somebody who was not there. On a bar, that line is the difference between a passage and a grounding.