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

[David Morris]

Breaches were bombed into the breakwaters (both plural).  The first "it" is
the boat.  The second "it" would be the foaming water.

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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