corbelets

Updated: May 11, 2025

Off that point, a little beyond the harbour of Corbelets, is that which the seamen of the Norman archipelago call a "singe." The "singe," or race, is a furious kind of current. A wreath of funnels in the shallows produces in the waves a wreath of whirlpools. You escape one to fall into another.

Victor Hugo - The Man Who Laughs