"weighing anchor" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It's often used to describe the act of raising the anchor from a ship's position. For example, "The captain gave the order to weigh anchor, and the ship began its journey."
At Lysekil, on the peninsula between the Gullmar fjord and the Skagerrak Sea, you and your guest will board a traditional wooden boat and help fishermen Lars Marstone and Adriaan Van Plasse harvest mussels and oysters before weighing anchor on a rocky island to prepare a shellfish supper.
Thousands are weighing anchor and fleeing with their gin palaces to quiet corners of the Mediterranean to escape a tax evasion crackdown – part of efforts by the government of Mario Monti, the prime minister, to tackle Italy's €1.9 trillion public debt.
It was for this reason that the Ionians changed their minds and decided to remain in Asia. 4 After these events it came to pass that the armament of the Greeks was divided, the Lacedaemonians sailing back to Laconia and the Athenians together with the Ionians and the islanders22 weighing anchor for Sestus.
She evaded them by weighing anchor and moving to the concealment of a smoke screen.
Pompey weighed anchor at nightfall.
Aidid!" Today, the Harlan County weighed anchor and left.
On our last night we weigh anchor just off the island of Kerrera.
On Oct. 26, she will learn whether she can weigh anchor for parts unknown.
The sailors weighed anchor for Engroneland (Greenland) and other destinations on the Viking trade route.
Dr. Friedman, who cut his teeth on the Halley's Comet proposal, has long sought to weigh anchor in space.
We sail three nautical miles west to the fjord of Malangen, where we weigh anchor in a likely skrei patch.
