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With a neap tide, our chances should be pretty good.
The neap tide phenomenon occurs twice a month when the moon is near its first or last quarter.
Neap tides occur during the first and last quarters of the moon's phases.
It was almost a neap tide, though this was the fourth quarter of the moon.
On this day and the next the ocean experienced a neap tide, and failed to rise.
The species was found to be more abundant in trawl catches during the night and on neap tides.
Sometimes there are really low tides called neap tides.
A distinctive zone-forming species with its upper limit at the lowest neap water high-water mark.
The next low tide will come about daybreak and, if my observations are correct, it should be a neap tide.
There is only one known potable (drinkable) water source, a brackish spring, exposed briefly at neap tide.
Every August, the Chausey Regatta takes place on the first weekend of the neap tide.
During the neap tide, when the tidal current strength is weakest, smaller quantities of finer grains are deposited.
The barges were floated into place at neap tide, and the spring tide used to lift the sections above the height of the piers.
The Dutch River was difficult to navigate, made more hazardous by shoals, three awkward bridges, and low water levels at neap tides.
In a neap tide the countering tug of the sun counteracts the pull of the moon, and water levels deviate less.
When the sun is at right angles to the moon, their gravities are partially cancelled, producing the small tides called neap tides.
Half Moon is a lunar phase coinciding with neap tides, which are often easier for seafarers than spring tides.
Because the tidal speed doubles, eight times more tidal power can be produced at spring tides than at neap tides.
Neap tides are the lowest high tides and highest low tides, at the first and third quarters.)
Twice in her lifetime a neap tide had drawn the water back half a mile from the gravel strand at the eastern margin of Barca's Hamlet.
This improved water levels for the millers, but again caused problems for navigation, with bargees complaining that the gates could not be opened at neap tides.
The festival of St. Gonsalo has come to be held on the first Sunday nearest to the neap tide following Christmas in Vasai.
However, in 1736 they decided to buy land at Airmyn, as the water was deeper, and larger vessels could not always reach Rawcliffe, particularly on neap tides.
Thus big 'spring' tides, when the sea rises and ebbs most markedly, alternate with neap tides, when the rise and fall is much less pronounced.
Water levels were inadequate for the Mersey Flats at neap tides, resulting in them having to wait for days at Frodsham.