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Frank Reed You wrote: You mentioned "neaps". Neap tides around the North Sea occur a couple of days after First Quarter and Last Quarter. The offset is different in other parts of the world. A delay of one day is typical, which means that most locations had their neap-iest neap tides yesterday. When talking about the Moon's phase, it's safer to stick with the actual phase, or the elongation angle (the Moon-Sun lunar distance).

Frank

I suppose I should have said third quarter.  We got up early on Saturday 11^th to drive to TIKI.  The sky was clear, and the Moon was almost semi-circular, so I knew the Moon couldn’t be full by 14^th.  Looking at my tide tables, I see it was 3^rd quarter on Sunday 12^th.  I ought to have hung on an hour until the Sun appeared and tried to shoot an elusive Sun, Moon, Venus, but I was anxious to get to Brough in time to get in a couple of hours on the top of the tide.  I had everything set up for the fix on Monday morning, but of course there was too much cloud.  One day I’ll catch it.  DaveP