if an anchor is heavy enough to hold a ship in place, how does the ship not sink when hauling it?

Question

if an anchor is heavy enough to hold a ship in place, how does the ship not sink when hauling it?

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Answer 1

Anchors don’t work by putting the bottom of the boat on the ground. They work by making it so that the sideways motion of the boat doesn’t have enough force to drag the anchor across the ground. Some anchors are quite light, and do this by digging into the bottom. Most anchors use some sort of combination of weight and digging action.