Author: Geneva Shore Report

What happens to a boat or a ship (a sailing vessel of more than a hundred feet) out in troubled waters too deep or rough to swim in yet shallow enough to toss an anchor in to wait out the difficulties without being thrown on a rocky shore if it does not have an anchor?  A “sea anchor” will work in deep waters far from shore, where a sail or some other large floating object is thrown overboard with a long line attached to it.