GR translation: where it foams through breaches bombed underwater in the spring

[Jochen Stremmel]

The plural of breaches where "it" foams through leads me to believe that
"it" means the sea, water.

2017-07-07 17:22 GMT+02:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:

> "it" is the boat.  Breaches in the breakwaters.
>
> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> V497.26-33, P506.1-8   Crosscurrents tug at the boat as it moves out the
>> widening funnel of the Swine, toward the sea. Just inside the breakwaters,
>> where it foams through breaches bombed underwater in the spring *look*
>> out, Frau Gnahb, with no change of expression, swings her wheel full over,
>> goes barreling straight at the Sassnitz ferry *whoosh* veers away just
>> in time, cackling at passengers staggering back from the rail, gaping after
>> her. “Please, Mother,” silent Otto plaintive in the window of the pilot
>> house. In reply the good woman commences bellowing a bloodthirsty
>>
>> Does "it" refer to the boat in this sentence? And where are these
>> "breaches" exactly? Are they breaches in the breakwaters, or something else?
>>
>>
>
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