[Fictionary] Results: Cathead

[Jean-Joseph Cote]

On 6/27/2014 9:18 PM, Matthew Fowles Kulukundis wrote:
> Actual - 11 pts
> cathead - n. A horizontal beam extending from each side of a ship's 
> bow, used for raising and carrying an anchor.
> - I'm having trouble picturing this. It sounds like the beams stick 
> out to port and starbord. But (a) I can't recall seeing such things in 
> ship pictures, and (b) it seems like you'd want to suspend the anchor 
> from as close as possible to the fore-aft axis of the ship, so that 
> its weight doesn't tend to roll the ship as the anchor is raised or 
> lowered.
>
Google to the rescue.  I assume you want to avoid having the anchor bang 
into the hull, which might be a bad thing.

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