The phrase "anchor off" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in nautical contexts to refer to the act of anchoring a vessel at a distance from the shore or another object.
Example: "The captain decided to anchor off the coast to avoid the rough waters near the harbor."
Alternatives: "moor offshore" or "drop anchor at sea".
Ships will return to anchor off Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island and New Jersey.
He also makes home-brewed beer that he trades for prawns from trawlers that sometimes anchor off shore.
The rebel forces attacked the Colombo-registered M. V. Mercs Uhana early today as the ship tried to anchor off Point Pedro, a government spokesman said.
Chartering clients who pay €100,000 to €1 million a week — often to anchor off a Greek island or to sit dockside in St . Tropez— seem to be impervious to the economic crisis.
Mr. Bruno is also aware that overcrowding does not make for good publicity, so coast guard officials ensure that only a limited number of vessels can anchor off certain harbors.
They hold the crews hostage with machine-guns and semi-automatic pistols, then force the captain to anchor off the northern part of Somalia's coast for several weeks until a ransom is paid.The patrolling navies say they have begun to do better.
It will sail past ice caps and sheer cliffs, and mountains of gold and copper and ebony black and silver gray; it will glide through pack ice; it will anchor off long, implacable beaches and explore fjords gouged by glaciers over millions of years.
On 29 August 1461, Skanderbeg set off for Apulia, but a storm forced him to anchor off a Dalmatian island.
Linois had anchored at Pondicherry, a French Indian port, and Rainier had led a powerful squadron to anchor off the harbour in anticipation of the declaration of war.
Namely, hybrid solutions such as Byzcoin, Bitcoin-NG, Hybrid Consensus, Casper and Solida, anchor off-chain BFT decisions inside a PoW chain or the other way around.
Another anchor off-camera chimed in on the exchange: "Put your stories together and you'll have something going on!" No stranger to off-the-wall moments that range from reporting on a fake plane crash to coining infamous phrases like "sweater stretchers" and "caboose pistol," WGN Morning News has pretty much cornered the market on hilariously awkward newscasts by now.
