The phrase "anchor next to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the positioning of an anchor in relation to another object or location.
Example: "The boat was secured with an anchor next to the dock to prevent it from drifting away."
Alternatives: "moored beside" or "secured adjacent to".
In Bodrum's marina, yachts anchor next to the flimsy rubber boats that take refugees across the three-mile stretch of sea to Greece and Europe.
"We're going to take this thing up the Long Island Sound and drop the anchor next to some little island somewhere and just hang out," Jonathan said.
President Vladimir V. Putin's naval security detail -- a missile cruiser and its escort ship -- dropped anchor next to luxurious yachts off Sardinia in preparation for his weekend visit with the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.
There was more wind noise than you'd expect, plus a persistent, highly annoying squeak -- akin to fingernails scraping a blackboard -- from the shoulder-belt anchor next to the driver's left ear.
A ghostly schooner drops anchor next to Daland's ship.
Farragut sailed on to the city and anchored next to the levee on April 25.
It was anchored (next to the Thank You Jesus) off the shore of La Vallee, where it had been built.
During the bombardment, Confederate officials in New Orleans dispatched the powerful ironclad Louisiana to help protect the forts, but the vessel's engines were inoperative, and it ended up serving as a floating battery anchored next to Fort St . Philip
The glass walls at either end — one faces a riverfront promenade, the other a parking lot — bring in plenty of daylight, and through the one facing the river you can see a huge nineteenth-century sailing ship permanently anchored next to the museum.
The glass walls at either end one faces a riverfront promenade, the other a parking lot bring in plenty of daylight, and through the one facing the river you can see a huge nineteenth-century sailing ship permanently anchored next to the museum.
During a recent patrol of the Arthur Kill, Boatswain's Mate Third Class Alano Demurguiondo -- in the pilot house of a 41-foot utility boat, the Coast Guard's workhorse -- gave a long, hard, unsmiling look at two men in a small boat anchored next to an abutment of the Outerbridge Crossing between Staten Island and New Jersey.
