Restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind.
1 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?
6 Trying to halt our backwards progress we put out the sea anchor and rested for a few hours.
7 In the open ocean, with no sea anchor , he could readily flip during even a moderate tropical storm.
8 The sea anchor had worked, and the trawler was now riding with the tide, her bow into the wind.
9 Obviously they had retrieved their " sea anchor . "
10 Three large Pax Sea Navy frigates are at sea anchor off the platform, and two of them are combat submersibles.
11 The gig and jolly-boat were towing astern; the rest were well away by now, drifting to a canvas sea anchor .
12 He threw the primitive sea anchor overboard, hoping the current would catch it with enough strength to pull the trawler around.
13 It was always a bad moment when the boats were cut free to drift on a sea anchor until recovered by the victors.
14 Alvarenga strung 50 buoys from the boat as a makeshift " sea anchor " that floated on the surface, providing drag and stability.
15 In this emergency White constructed a sea anchor , by means of which he hoped to prolong their struggle for at least a few hours.
16 Sea anchors were hastily thrown overside, but still the ship approached the beach.
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