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Seavey Island, ME Daily Water Report — September 5, 2026

Boats and kayaks own Seavey Island today. Boating lands an 8.8 and kayaking an 8.1 on light north-northwesterly air, nearly steady modest seas, and little expected rain; wildlife viewing follows at 7.8, surfing at 6.6, sailing a wind-starved 5.6, and fishing a middling 5.2. Diving is unscored, so it stays off the card. Those numbers are suitability scores, not a safety stamp. Open-Meteo has the air mostly quiet: a representative 3 knots from the NNW, generally 1 to 9 knots, with the day’s strongest gust of 15.6 knots near 08:00. Skies are almost empty at 2 percent cloud, atmospheric visibility 16.2 km, and temperatures 15.1 to 20.9 C under a 1009 hPa pressure that is still rising. A rain window sits between 13:00 and 16:00, yet representative precipitation is 0 mm, so any shower looks like a brief interruption rather than a soak. NOAA tides run a 2.27 m high at 06:15, a 0.32 m low at 12:08, and a 2.72 m high at 18:33. The marine forecast holds waves 0.7 to 0.8 m, with swell near 0.66 m at 6.15 seconds from 102 degrees and only token wind waves. Calmest water is overnight near 00:00 at 0.66 m. Current is about 0.4 m/s toward 180 degrees, and marine SST is 19 C. The fishing score leans on solunar timing, tide, pressure, and wind, so the 06:41–08:41 major period after sunrise is the morning window, traded against that 08:00 gust. Midday low water is the wildlife score’s cue. Evening’s higher high and the 18:41–20:41 major period sit neatly against sunset at 19:15; a last-quarter moon, 42 percent lit, sets at 16:03, so after dusk you are on starlight. Surfing gets a usable but short-period sea; sailing simply lacks breeze. Against reconstructed recent days, boating is up from 8.1 yesterday and kayaking jumps from 6.6, while fishing slipped from 6.2. Tomorrow stays light, Sunday the 7th warms and the sea flattens, then midweek seas drop further before wind and a 38 percent rain chance return around the 9th and 10th. Best bet: take a hull or a paddle on the evening high, when the air is still and the water has done its work.