breakage n A gap; passageway for a boat or vessel.
   P 148-59 The breakage between the islands was neither wide enough nor deep enough for the vessel to pass through. T 172/4-65 I said, 'Boys, we'll haul up our boat here and turn her up on her edge so as the wind will break her.' We propped her up and we got blackberry trees and poked that through the breakage between the stem and the stern. And that was our shelter until the storm was over. T 187/8-65 There was a breakage broke out eastern when it lightened, and the skipper said he was going to slip her now, put her out in that breakage, and let her go with the ice.

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