Another contentious anchor thread.

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Nothing to do with anchors at all - but I knew the hunger for anchor threads cannot be satisfied so assumed the title would grab attention :)

Why do we 'moor UP' a yacht, why when invited for a drink we might say, "we'll just go and anchor UP, and be with you soon'" etc

Why the 'UP'?

I was prompted as I have just written some instructions and the first instruction was 'Anchor up', followed by further short instructions. I could have said 'deploy anchor and set', which might have been more clear - as the 'up' is something of a contradiction.

Or is it just me :)

Jonathan
 
It's like 'parking up' a car.
Or 'packing up' being the same as packing away.
Tied up.

Personally I just say 'moor' or 'anchor'. Adding 'up' sounds a bit 'northern'.
But I would say tied up. My boat is moored. It's tied up to a pontoon. My dinghy is tied down to its trailer though.
'Anchor up' is ambiguous.
 
Has anyone else observed that you have to cut a tree down before you can cut it up? Funny, that.

Thinking about it, I suppose a car that has broken down can be broken up but it’s too late for a car that’s been broken up to break down.

You can put up with a put-down, but putting down with a put-up makes no sense at all.

When you buy a new computer you’re likely to set it down before you set it up.

Just as boats are moored up and not down, topics tend to be brought, offers taken, and fussed kicked, up but never down.

It’s more polite to turn down an evening date before they turn up. If you turn them down once they have turned up, it’s known as standing them up. However, ‘standing someone down’ is how the military refers to the act of turning down someone who’s turned up. I understand that the person doesn’t need to have stood up before being stood down, but having been stood down the usual response is to stand up and leave.
 
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I think I should stick with anchors

I lack the fertile, educated (and impressive) imagination of the correspondents so far - and sticking with things marine, came up with a pretty unremarkable 'raft up'.

Jonathan
 
'Up' also means to go to a place or thing, not only relative to being higher, hence I'll just anchor up, means I'll go and anchor. The usage is correct if the full definition of the word up is understood.
 
This is my remote control.

It is wired completely wrong. If I press the button for “anchor up”. The anchor comes up.
Typical Chinese:).

I am now way too scared to try pressing the “North” and “South” options :).
 

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noelex said:
This is my remote control.

It is wired completely wrong. If I press the button for “anchor up”. The anchor comes up.
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I recently rewired mine. Microswitches had broken, one placed beside the other in the handheld unit. I fitted two large waterproof buttons on the front, one above the other. Dilemma: do you designate the top button as ‘up’, in which case if you want the chain to come towards you you have to push the button furthest from you and vice versa, or do you put the ‘up’ button below the ‘down’ button which looks perverse?
 
BelleSerene said:
Has anyone else observed that you have to cut a tree down before you can cut it up? Funny, that.

Thinking about it, I suppose a car that has broken down can be broken up but it’s too late for a car that’s been broken up to break down.

You can put up with a put-down, but putting down with a put-up makes no sense at all.

When you buy a new computer you’re likely to set it down before you set it up.

Just as boats are moored up and not down, topics tend to be brought, offers taken, and fussed kicked, up but never down.

It’s more polite to turn down an evening date before they turn up. If you turn them down once they have turned up, it’s known as standing them up. However, ‘standing someone down’ is how the military refers to the act of turning down someone who’s turned up. I understand that the person doesn’t need to have stood up before being stood down, but having been stood down the usual response is to stand up and leave.
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Pure dead brilliant!
 
I think these anchor threads are all washed up. Or is it washed down? We wash up dishes and wash down a boat. Clean up some messes and clean down some things. We go north and say we're going up, south and we're going down, (even if that southbound trip is up a mountain).
We write down words and then that story has been written up.
We add up a column of numbers but go down the column to add them. Then they've been totalled up, not down.

And we weigh anchor event though we know it says on it that its 13kg.
 
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