A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind.
Restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind.
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Examples for "sea anchor"
Examples for "sea anchor"
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Another gang fell to work; pulling in the sea anchor.
2
Your sea anchor saved you, that and good seamanship.
3
Bettik rigged a sort of sea anchor using the microtent and the climbing rope, she said.
4
On Thursday night the waves came crashing in and we reluctantly put the sea anchor out.
5
Why don't you get that hundred-meter section of line you used as a sea anchor on Mare Infinitus?
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Beyond it he could see the gleaming metal ribbons of the drogue chute.
2
They quickly pulled it in and set out the rucksack drogue.
3
They are attached to the drogue using a three-ring release system.
4
Edward came up and stood beside me as the drogue was trailed overboard.
5
The record-setting flight used a probe-and-drogue system, similar to what the Navy uses today.
6
As the men started to bail they knew they needed a new drogue, fast.
7
A small drogue parachute was released as planned, followed by the three main parachutes.
8
I brought up Fulgham's near-lethal spin and Kittinger's drogue-chute cravat.
9
When the top dome is off it will drag the drogue out as well.
10
If we do it this way, we may have to kill their drogue riders.
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Greatest distance of free fall without a drogue chute.
12
It wasn't enough, so they took off the mainsail to use as a drogue, too.
13
The drogue slowed their free-fall speed from two people to that of a single skydiver.
14
At four hundred metres, the drogue chute shot up.
15
That maudite drogue, that coffee, this morning, has made me as thirsty as a panthère.
16
Since we don't, we'll move in column-mefirst, Jake pushing Susannah behind, and you on drogue.