Now he saw that Brota was performing some tricky maneuvers, bringing her ship in through a crowded anchorage in a fitful breeze.

The vessels are equipped with a horizontal thruster in their bows, to aid maneuvering in tight conditions, such as mooring in crowded anchorages.

If the Glaros was able to get under way, the pleasure craft would outrun the larger boat easily, especially within this crowded anchorage where maneuverability was as definite a plus as speed.

Its walls towered over the water, gray and cold against a sky of winter-blue steel as Harnak's vessel entered the crowded anchorage where tall, square-rigged ships lay to their buoys or nuzzled the quays.

They have a bow thruster for maneuvering in crowded anchorages and channels.

Still, in a crowded anchorage, with the sailors taking their time, aiming at big, well-lit, stationary targets at point-blank range, a gun certainly would be nice.

It was good to be under way again, even if getting a cutter out of a crowded anchorage presented plenty of problems.

Now five dhows were burning, and drifted out of control into the crowded anchorage.

The night of 4 April, in a high wind, she slipped a dragging anchor and worked her way skillfully through the crowded anchorage to sea and the next day departed for Saipan.

Then they rounded the cliffs and into the crowded anchorage which sheltered Angel's craft.