I ought to get away from the house and throw out a sea anchor, he thought.

"Maybe I could rig some kind of sea anchor," he said.

In that case my only course would be to take all sail off her and lie to a sea anchor.

There are other times when you might want to ride to a sea anchor.

There was no time to pull in the lines to the sea anchors.

The sailing master had been lost when he attempted to put out a sea anchor.

She had dropped a sea anchor to maintain her position.

The first, and probably most well known use, of the sea anchor is to aid vessels in heavy weather.

We must put out a sea anchor in case the engine stops.

The sea anchors did their job well-in fact, nearly too well.