swatchways

Updated: May 4, 2025

The same applies to the course of the channels themselves, whose minor meanderings cannot be reproduced. It was on the edge of one of these tidal swatchways that the yacht was now lying. It was, so Davies told me, the last and most intricate stage of the 'short cut' which the Medusa had taken on that memorable day a stage he himself had never reached.

Erskine Childers - The Riddle of the Sands