When the anchor is hove home, it is 'sighted and clear' at the point when the anchor crown shackle breaks the surface of the water. A prudent officer would not consider that the anchor is clear until he sees that the flukes are clear. On the same basis an officer in charge of an anchor party tends not to ring anchor aweigh until he sees t [..]

To come into view; said of a sail that appears above the horizon or round a headland; also of the anchor when it comes above water.