If the gale held at this force, number two hatch would be stove-in unless the ship could keep her head up with slack water below.

A final lurch as slack water shifted in the holds, then the plunge.

It's slack water now, we can make our landing easy.

'You wait for slack water and you'll come to no harm,' said the old man, and went off along the bank.

One could not go through at slack water on the oars, for the way was too narrow.

It would have to be at slack water, around eleven tonight.

"Why, we're going that way ourselves, inside an hour, as soon as slack water comes," he exclaimed.

The port anchor caught a moment later and the raft lay still as a pond lily in slack water.

Their boat drifted past the patrol, just beyond the aura of light and in slack water.

The best time for small craft to enter the Rip is at slack water.