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

The anchor needs to resist the force of the waves/current, which is does by digging into the seabed and by being relatively heavy. It *doesn’t* support the full weight of the boat itself – water/buoyancy does that. So the anchor is really only experiencing a fraction of the weight of the boat compared to say…the boat hanging off a cliff and the anchor holding it from falling down into a canyon.

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