Definition
Occurs when the anchor hooks a mooring chain, cable, wreck or rock, or when the flukes trap their own cable after the vessel swings with the tide. Clearing methods include motoring over the anchor from the opposite direction, using a tripping line led to the crown, or passing a bight of line under the obstruction. A foul hawse describes two cables twisted together after repeated swinging at a moor.
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