You might experience changing weather to cause the tide to be identical for three days or always early or late, by hours. So too, the time of tide is delayed as one motors north from the break. Little Bay is almost three hours behind the break, the main embayment along Rte. 28, about two hours. It is also important to note that Pleasant Bay is aproximately a five hour flood and a seven hour ebb.
Shape is everything.
The tide slacks, you look down and see the water rising on your waders for flood tide. Take a compass to be sure of your return to a shore. This means that if you are in one of these places at ebb, you may not get out for an hour or two. Its best to consult your chart and watch out for water shallower than 4'. These are removed each fall and replaced each spring.