Before you use Daypaddle

Daypaddle shows estimates of wind, tidal stream and tide height to help plan a day of sea kayaking. They can be wrong. Forecasts miss, models are coarse, the current atlases are pictures of a tidal model, and nothing here is a measurement of the water on the day.

Sea kayaking is inherently risky. Conditions change, and the water near shore, in passages and around headlands is often rougher and faster than any estimate here. You are responsible for your own decisions on the water, for checking the official marine forecast and the tide and current tables, and for your own skills, equipment, companions and judgement.

Daypaddle, its author and its data sources accept no responsibility for any loss, injury or death arising from its use. If you cannot accept that, please do not use the site.

Sources, used with thanks: the Salish Sea Tidal Current Atlas by Richard Dewey, whose arrows are the basis of the current estimates; Canadian Hydrographic Service tide and current predictions; the CHS Current Atlas, used only in reviewing local features and not in the estimates; Open-Meteo weather; OpenStreetMap. None of them endorses Daypaddle.

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