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 the same length of cable is out on both anchors. It is sometimes more convenient to take the second anchor out in a boat to the place where it has to be let go.

To unmoor, veer out chain to one anchor while getting the other anchor up. Then weigh the second anchor.

When lying at anchor in windless weather, the vessel is apt to float right over her anchor at slack water, just before the turn of the tide. The cable is then likely to take a turn round the upper fluke of the anchor, so that, when a strain is put upon it, it will pull the other fluke out of the ground and so cause the anchor to drag. To obviate this heave the cable short at slack water and let it go again when the vessel swings to the tide.

If one is anchored on rocky ground the anchor is apt to get foul, and may have to be abandoned unless one has adopted one of the two following methods