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Anchor

An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα (ankȳra).

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Anchoring

History

Small boat anchors

Permanent anchors

Anchoring gear

Security and modes of failure

As symbol

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Anchor

Nodes82
Edges81
Triples301
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02439
Components1

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Anchor

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related to Bibliography · 36
Anchor → Alex, An, Anchoring, Art, Blackwell, Cornell Maritime Press, Cruising Under Sail, Cruising World's Guide, Daria, Earl, Eric, Everrett, Fred, Happy Hooking, Highmark Publishing, Hold, ISBN, John, Larry, Lin
related to Anchor rode · 17
Anchor → Additional, All, Any, Being, Both, Elasticity, Large, Natural, Neither, Polyester, Polypropylene, Ropes, Smaller, Some, The, This, Where
related to CQR plough anchor · 16
Anchor → All, Clyde Quick Release, Coastal Quick Release, Contrary, CQR, CQR's, Delta, Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Lewmar, Lewmar's, Many, Plough, Ploughs, Some, The, UK
related to Further reading · 15
Anchor → Brady, Clement, Encyclopædia Britannica, First, II, Morley, New York, Or, Taylor, The Kedge-anchor, The Naval Apprentice's Kedge, Thomas, Vol, William, Young Sailors' Assistant
related to Delta anchor · 13
Anchor → Although, Australian Sarca Excel, British, CQR, European Brake, Gordon Lyall, It, James Stewart, Philip McCarron, Simpson-Lawrence Ltd, The, The Delta, This
related to Scoop type anchors · 13
Anchor → Alain Poiraud, As, Bügel, Bügel Anker, France, German Rolf Kaczirek, Instead, It, Kaczirek, Poiraud's, Similar, The, Three
related to As symbol · 12
Anchor → An, Anchored, Anchored Cross, Black Sea, Clement's Cross, Mariner's Cross, Miscellaneous Symbols, St, The, The Mariner's Cross, The Unicode, There
related to Evolution of the anchor · 12
Anchor → Apollonius Rhodius, Athenaeus, Bronze Age, Byzantium, Greeks, However, Influential, Many, Pre-European Māori, Stephen, Such, The
related to Admiralty anchor · 9
Anchor → Admiralty, As, At, Fisherman, Nemi, The Admiralty Anchor, The Admiralty Pattern, This, When
related to Danforth anchor · 9
Anchor → American Richard Danforth, Danforth, Danforth Anchor, If, In, It, Its, The, Tripping

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Anchoris adevice0.90text
Anchoris adrag device0.90text
Anchoris aanchor carried in addition to the main0.90text
Anchoris aentirely independent reinvention of a classical design0.90text
Anchoris aset of tripping palms0.90text
Anchoris aanchor of choice for Rubicon 30.90text
Anchoris alight anchor used for warping an anchor0.90text
Anchoris asame or less than the scope ratio0.90text
Apollonius Rhodiusinstance ofInfluential authors0.80text
Stephen of Byzantium also show that they may be made out of woodinstance ofInfluential authors0.80text
Athenaeus also referring to anchors made out of metalsinstance ofInfluential authors0.80text
oil rigsinstance ofIt was designed as an advance over the anchors used for floating systems0.80text

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