page_title: Anchor
section_title: Kedging
hierarchical_section_title: Anchor / Anchoring techniques / Kedging
caption_attribution_description: Воронеж.Памятник Петру-1 в Петровском сквере
context_page_description: An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα.
  Anchors can either be temporary or permanent. Permanent anchors are used in the creation of a mooring, and are rarely moved; a specialist service is normally needed to move or maintain them. Vessels carry one or more temporary anchors, which may be of different designs and weights.
  A sea anchor is a drogue, not in contact with the seabed. It is used to control a drifting vessel, or to slow and help steer a sailing yacht running before a storm.
context_section_description: Kedging or warping is a technique for moving or turning a ship by using a relatively light anchor.
  In yachts, a kedge anchor is an anchor carried in addition to the main, or bower anchors, and usually stowed aft. Every yacht should carry at least two anchors – the main or bower anchor and a second lighter kedge anchor. It is used occasionally when it is necessary to limit the turning circle as the yacht swings when it is anchored, such as in a very narrow river or a deep pool in an otherwise shallow area. Kedge anchors are sometimes used to recover vessels that have run aground.
  For ships, a kedge may be dropped while a ship is underway, or carried out in a suitable direction by a tender or ship's boat to enable the ship to be winched off if aground or swung into a particular heading, or even to be held steady against a tidal or other stream.
  Historically, it was of particular relevance to sailing warships which used them to outmaneuver opponents when the wind had dropped but might be used by any vessel in confined, shoal water to place it in a more desirable position, provided she had enough manpower.
caption: Statue of Peter the Great in Voronezh, Russia.  He is leaning on an anchor, symbolic of his contributions to modernizing and expanding Russia's navy (1860)
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