mooring to two anchors

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• Mooring (watercraft) — A dockworker places a mooring line on a bollard. A vessel is said to be moored when it is fastened to a fixed object such as a bollard, pier, quay or the seabed, or to a floating object such as an anchor buoy. Mooring is often accomplished using… …   Wikipedia

• Kite mooring — Kites are given mooring by many methods. Watercraft and aircraft traditionally have the term mooring applied to making the watercraft or aircraft fast to some external object. The kite has two parts: wing and kite line; the kite essentially needs …   Wikipedia

• Single buoy mooring — (SBM) or Single point mooring (SPM) are loading buoys anchored offshore and serve as a mooring point for tankers to (off)load gas or fluid products. They are the link between the geostatic subsea manifold connections and the weathervaning tanker …   Wikipedia

• αμφιδέτηση — η Ναυτ. η αγκυροβολιά πλοίου και με τις δύο άγκυρες (δεξιά και αριστερή). Συνήθως κατά την αμφιδέτηση οι αλυσίδες τών δύο αγκυρών συνδέονται με έναν αμφιδέτη για να μην μπλεχτούν. [ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < αμφιδετώ*, πρβλ. αγγλ. mooring with two anchors,… …   Dictionary of Greek

• Anchor — For other uses, see Anchor (disambiguation). Ploudalmézeau, anchor of Amoco Cadiz An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, that is used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the vessel from drifting due to wind or… …   Wikipedia

• Glossary of nautical terms — This is a glossary of nautical terms; some remain current, many date from the 17th 19th century. See also Wiktionary s nautical terms, Category:Nautical terms, and Nautical metaphors in English. Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R …   Wikipedia

• Kite types — Colorful delta wing kite Kites are tethered flying objects which fly by using aerodynamic lift, requiring wind, (or towing), for generation of airflow over the lifting surfaces. Contents 1 Kite …   Wikipedia

• flying moor — noun : a mooring in which the first anchor is let go while the ship has enough way to carry it at least to the point for dropping the second anchor * * * Naut. the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is …   Useful english dictionary

• flying moor — Naut. the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is under way. * * * …   Universalium

• moor — moor1 [moor] n. [ME more < OE mor, wasteland, akin to LowG mor < IE base * mori , sea > MARSH, MERE2, L mare, sea: basic sense “swampy coastland”] Brit. 1. a tract of open, rolling wasteland, usually covered with heather and often marshy …   English World dictionary

• USS Windlass (ARS(D)-4) — was originally conceived as LSM 552 and laid down on 27 August 1945 at Houston, TX, by Brown Shipbuilding Corporation; launched on 7 December 1945; and commissioned on 9 April 1946 in Houston at the Tennessee Coal and Iron Docks, Lieutenant… …   Wikipedia