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When a boat/ship/vessel wants to remain at the same spot, it either moors or anchors. Mooring involves attaching the boat to a buoy, which is itself attached to the ground, usually by a chain. Anchoring involves dropping an anchor carried aboard the vessel until it hits the ground and (hopefully) digs part of itself into the sand, or mud. The anchor is attached to the vessel by a chain or rope (often called a CABLE). In either case, the vessel is secured by a single thread to the ground and can move around as the tide and wind affect it. Thus it SWINGS to anchor. If we imagine a situation in which there is no wind, only tide, then every six hours (or thereabouts) the tide will reverse its direction and the vessel will turn through 180 degrees. Often the tide will have changed direction during each of the six hours (6:13 to be precise, but even that varies) and the direction in which the vessel is pointing will be constantly changing with the tidal movements. With wind, it just gets more complicated! The vessel is constantly SWINGING.
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What is the swing guns of a boat?
side of ship
What does it mean if a boat is anchored?
A anchored boat is when the boat has sent down a rope with i massive hook (called an anchor) and then the ship has stopped so the boat will not move. :) sorry if you dont understand
Where does the in board of an anchor line go?
The in board end of an anchor line attaches to the bow (ie front end) of the boat/ship. On a small boat such as a River Drift Boat, the anchor line may be attached to stern (ie back end). of the boat.
What is a permanent boat anchor used for?
A boat anchor is not permanently in the water. A crew on a ship or individuals on a smaller vessel deploy an anchor to keep the boat at the current location and sometimes used to help slow down by creating increased resistance.
Can you give a sentence using the word anchor?
It depends what meaning you give for anchor. I'll use the kind of anchor for a ship: The boat dropped anchor and two passengers got out. Hope it helped!
How much do anchors typically weigh?
Ship anchors have different weights, depending on the size of the ship, as well as the design of the anchor. A twenty foot boat under five thousand pounds will have a yachtsman anchor around fifteen pounds, whereas a sixty foot boat of fifty thousand pounds will need a yachtsman anchor at least a hundred pounds to be effective.
Where does an anchor get thrown off of?
It is a heavy device that gets thrown off a boat or ship into the water to hold the vessel in place
What does the phrase to weigh anchor mean?
It's a phrase that's often misunderstood. It means to pull up a ship's anchor. It's the opposite of "to drop anchor".
How do you move your first ship on SkullDugery Poptropica?
1st you use the spacebar to raise your anchor than you move you mouse and the boat will follow
The ship drops anchor?
it drops anchor
What chains a ship to the sea bottom?
anchor
What keeps a ship still in the ocean?
anchor
