AUS-WKD-Y-L4.2

Anchoring and mooring

AUS-WKD-Y-M4 · Yacht Operations · AUS-WKD-Y-M4-A The parts of the job the merchant ladder never teaches

An anchor does not hold by weight. It holds because the **cable lies along the seabed** and pulls the anchor **horizontally** into it. Everything about scope, and everything that goes wrong at anchor, follows from that sentence.