The vessel is attached to the anchor by the rode, which is made of chain, cable, rope, or a combination of these.

The elements of anchoring gear include the anchor, the cable ( also called a rode ), the method of attaching the two together, the method of attaching the cable to the ship, charts, and a method of learning the depth of the water.

The depth of water is necessary for determining scope, which is the ratio of length of cable to the depth measured from the highest point ( usually the anchor roller or bow chock ) to the seabed.

For example, if the water is 25 ft ( 8 m ) deep, and the anchor roller is 3 ft ( 1 m ) above the water, the scope is the ratio between the amount of cable let out and 28 ft ( 9 m ).

A cable or rode is the rope, chain, or combination thereof used to connect the anchor to the vessel.

Then, taking in on the first cable as the boat is motored into the wind and letting slack while drifting back, a second anchor is set approximately a half-scope away from the first on a line perpendicular to the wind.

After this second anchor is set, the scope on the first is taken up until the vessel is lying between the two anchors and the load is taken equally on each cable.

One method of accomplishing this moor is to set a bow anchor normally, then drop back to the limit of the bow cable ( or to double the desired scope, e. g. 8: 1 if the eventual scope should be 4: 1, 10: 1 if the eventual scope should be 5: 1, etc.

By taking up on the bow cable the stern anchor can be set.

One of the primary characteristics of this technique is the use of a swivel as follows: the first anchor is set normally, and the vessel drops back to the limit of anchor cable.

A second anchor is attached to the end of the anchor cable, and is dropped and set.

A swivel is attached to the middle of the anchor cable, and the vessel connected to that.

Captain Antoine René Thévenard used the spring on his anchor cable to angle his broadside into a raking position across the bow of Nelson's flagship, which consequently suffered over 100 casualties, including the admiral.

On Peuple Souverain, Captain Pierre-Paul Raccord was badly wounded and ordered his ship's anchor cable cut in an effort to escape the bombardment.

An anchor rode ( or anchor line ) usually consists of chain or cable or both.

A third form of mooring system is the ballasted catenary configuration, created by adding multiple-tonne weights hanging from the midsection of each anchor cable in order to provide additional cable tension and therefore increase stiffness of the above-water floating structure.

The anchor cable of the Vaquenos snapped and the anchor was lost.

Fox News does produce some news coverage carried by the broadcast network, usually separate from the coverage aired on the cable channel, as Fox Report and Studio B anchor Shepard Smith anchors most primetime news presentations on the Fox network, especially during political news events ( which are anchored by Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel ).

The author's name " indicates the status of the discourse within a society and culture ", and at one time was used as an anchor for interpreting a text, a practice which Barthes would argue is not a particularly relevant or valid endeavor.

* 1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become " the most trusted man in America ".

One can get by without referring to charts, but they are an important tool and a part of good anchoring gear, and a skilled mariner would not choose to anchor without them.

* 1838 – The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838

These songs were typically performed while adjusting the rigging, raising anchor, and other tasks where men would need to pull in rhythm.

When the rode is slack, the catenary curve presents a lower angle of pull on the anchor or mooring device than would be the case if it were nearly straight.

Their three husbands, Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht and Mac Gréine, who were kings of the Tuatha Dé Danann at that time, asked for a truce of three days, during which the Milesians would lie at anchor nine waves ' distance from the shore.

The principled rejection of a reunification that would alienate Germany from the Western alliance made it harder to anchor the party among Protestant voters.

For this use, the military ensign would have a white field included with a golden marker: For the Harbour pilots ( as of 1881, based on a proposal of 1825 ) an anchor with a star ; for the Customs ( as of 1844 ) the letter " T " topped a royal crown ; for the Royal Mail ( as of 1844 ) a postal horn with a royal crown.

Without the addition of buttresses, bracing arches and anchor irons over the succeeding centuries, it would have suffered the fate of spires on later great ecclesiastical buildings ( such as Malmesbury Abbey ) and fallen down ; instead, Salisbury remains the tallest church spire in the UK.

Between 1975 and 1980, she created such characters as Roseanne Roseannadanna, an obnoxious woman with wild black hair whose trademark complaint, " It's always something -- if it ain't one thing, it's another ", gave her autobiography its title, and who would tell stories about the gross habits of celebrities on the show's " Weekend Update " news segment, inspired in name and appearance by Rose Ann Scamardella, a news anchor at WABC-TV in New York City.

Menands would have been first spotted by Europeans in 1609 when Henry Hudson dropped anchor somewhere near Cuyler or Pleasure Island during his voyage on the river later to be named after him.

It was also heard that if you go to the boat anchor and touch it, you would be taken to a different world.

In 2002, Arrarás moved to the Telemundo USA network to work as the anchor woman in a new television program that would replace her former competitor, Ocurrio Asi.

Although each cast member's real name was always shown at the beginning of each episode, at the end of most episodes prior to 2006, one cast member would sign off using their anchor character's name, which is noted below where known.

As the foremost ship drew alongside a Danish ship, it would anchor and engage that ship.

A few weeks later, WABC tried again with Good Morning New York, hosted originally by Spencer Christian and Andrea Kirby ; Kirby would eventually be replaced by Judy Licht, and Christian was followed by the likes of Dick Wolfsie and longtime Eyewitness News reporter and anchor Doug Johnson.

In 2002, NBC announced that Brokaw would retire as anchor of the NBC Nightly News following the 2004 Presidential election, to be succeeded by Brian Williams.

" Though Medar died before Maddux graduated from Valley High School in Las Vegas, he instilled a firm foundation that would anchor Maddux ’ future career.

On January 13, 2010, CBS announced that news anchor Russ Mitchell would exit The Early Show at the end of the week, leaving a gap in the lineup for the perennially third-place CBS morning show.

He became the national correspondent for CBS and would continue to be the anchor of the Sunday edition of the CBS Evening News.

On September 2, 2011, it was announced that Marysol Castro would be leaving her post as weather anchor effective immediately.

For the first half of 1985, Kurtis would continue to anchor the Early Morning News solo until March while continuing to co-anchor Morning News with Phyllis George until July.

Faith Daniels took over and would remain on the anchor desk, most of the time sharing the anchor desk with Forrest Sawyer ( July to December 1985 and January to September 1987 ) and later Douglas Edwards and Charles Osgood, until leaving to anchor NBC News at Sunrise in 1990.