Too strong for us to stay at anchor in here.

A boat at anchor will always point into the wind.

What was keeping the other ship at anchor for so long?

We're at anchor now, and they're ready for something different.

"He will be needed on board during the whole time we are at anchor here."

Two of the three days spent at anchor were hell.

The ship certainly wouldn't have stayed at anchor that long!

There wasn't much else to do when they lay at anchor.

Further out to sea another group of ships were at anchor.

But such people had never seen a ship at anchor in a high and a heavy sea.