Sea anchor
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sea-anchor-274-7119841
title:
Sea anchor
text:
A sea anchor is a device that is streamed from a boat in heavy weather. Its purpose is to stabilize the vessel and to limit progress through the water. Rather than tethering the boat to the seabed with a conventional anchor, a sea anchor provides hydrodynamic drag, thereby acting as a brake. Normally attached to a vessel's bows, a sea anchor can prevent the vessel from turning broadside to the waves and being overwhelmed by them. Early sea anchors were crude devices, but today most take the form
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Drag device used to stabilize a boat in heavy weather and reduce drift
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_anchor
date created:
date modified:
2024-04-01T02:42:04Z
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