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  2. This popular device that makes beach umbrellas better was ...

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    North Myrtle Beach couple Mike Haney and his wife Cathy came up with the idea of the Mike’s Spikes Hammerhead umbrella anchor while sitting on the beach on Easter weekend in 2006. They have sold ...

  3. How to prevent a beach umbrella from flying away and ... - AOL

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    Angle the umbrella toward the wind, which will help to push the umbrella into the sand. • Using an anchor. Some choose to use an anchor to secure their umbrellas. A sand anchor has a corkscrew ...

  4. Anchor - Wikipedia

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    Anchors are sometimes fitted with a trip line [13] attached to the crown, by which they can be unhooked from underwater hazards. The term aweigh describes an anchor when it is hanging on the rope and not resting on the bottom. This is linked to the term to weigh anchor, meaning to lift the anchor from the sea bed, allowing the ship or boat to move.

  5. Anchor windlass - Wikipedia

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    The combined port anchor windlass and winch of the modern ferry Stena Britannica. The hydraulically operated brake and pawl allows the anchor to be dropped from the ship's bridge. [citation needed] A windlass is a machine used on ships that is used to let-out and heave-up equipment such as a ship's anchor or a fishing trawl. On some ships, it ...

  6. History of the anchor - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Greeks used baskets of stones, large sacks filled with sand, and wooden logs filled with lead, which, according to Apollonius Rhodius and Stephen of Byzantium, were formed of stone; and Athenaeus states that they were sometimes made of wood. Such anchors held the vessel merely by their weight and by their friction along the bottom ...

  7. Stockless anchor - Wikipedia

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    A stockless anchor (or "patent anchor") is a streamlined derivation of the traditional Admiralty anchor used aboard large ships. Patented in England in 1821, [1] it eliminated the stock of the Admiralty, making it both easier to handle and stow. Though it did not hold as well as an Admiralty, the trade-off proved acceptable and the stockless ...