To the uninitiated, anchoring a boat is a pretty straightforward task. You drop the anchor over the side, and bam, you are anchored. How much more could there be to it? Contrary to popular belief, ...

Pulling an anchor up from the seafloor is a job for the birds — or a first mate you don’t like very much. It’s backbreaking work that you probably start to dread the second you deploy the anchor and ...

My brother-in-law likes to fish offshore reefs, and the process once entailed navigating to a mark, dropping a float, and idling upwind or up-current to drop the anchor in hopes the set would drop us ...