With the tide of the game swinging from team to team, Johnson stayed in the odd position of a spectator.
The tide swung them round the buoy, and another appeared.
The rising tide then swung her broadside on to the island, both propellers were lost and a huge hole was ripped in the ship's bottom.
Though the tide had swung back in their favor, it was several minutes before Scotty Dixon and his crew realized that.
The tide had come in and swung the ship on her anchor until her bow was pointing toward the harbor entrance.
"In many ways, from 5-2 on, the tide swung quite a bit," said the sixth-seeded Chang.
He had the anchor fixed in a moment and was back aboard again as the dying tide swung the Teasel slowly round.
Then the tide swung her stern round and she drifted on.
The tide is about to turn and will swing us around.
However a strong tide swung her around onto a mud bank and held there.