sea anchor

Using sea anchors, she ensured that those buoys drifted with the surface currents, free from the disruptive influence of wind or waves.

As darkness fell on the ocean, the three boats tied themselves together, and the Docker put out a sea anchor to keep them turned up into the wind.

It was a six-man orange life raft with a sea anchor inside and no visible marine growth or markings.

“In the worst storms, we put out a sea anchor,” essentially a parachute; the currents fill up the parachute, and basically hold the boat in place.

Ultimately, he said, a net can so impede the flow of water it acts like a sea anchor — and even a wall.