Winsome Anchors (but not Siouan)

[Bruce Ingham]

On 21/8/04 3:27 pm, "Alan H. Hartley" <ahartley at d.umn.edu> wrote:

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> In the few (modern yachting) examples I've found, to win the anchor
> apparently means to succeed in breaking it out of the bottom and
> weighing it. (As far as I can tell, it wasn't in general use historically.)
>
> On a large sailing vessel, after the anchor was weighed and was hanging
> under the bow ("under foot"), the cat-tackle was hooked to the
> anchor-ring and used to hoist the top of the anchor to the cathead where
> it was secured with the cat-stopper. That completed, the fish-tackle was
> used to fish the anchor, i.e., draw the anchor-shank (and flukes) up to
> the gunwale. That (bottom) end of the anchor was then secured to the
> ship's side with the shank-painter. The anchor thus ended up horizontal
> along the ship's side,, extending aft from the cathead.
>
> Alan
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What more can one say?
Bruce