Run forward and get the anchor a-trip and on deck as quickly as you are able. Then let draw the jib-sheets, cast off the tiller-line, and sail away. You can get your foresail up as soon as you are clear of other vessels.
If your vessel is riding to tide and wind, and it is blowing hard, hoist no canvas before heaving on the cable, for the pressure of the wind upon the sails would cause the anchor to drag. Just as the anchor is leaving the ground put the helm over to cant the vessel, and hoist the foresail and jib smartly. Hoist the mainsail when the vessel is under way.
If the tide and wind be in opposite directions, and the vessel is riding to the tide with the wind astern, set jib, or jib and foresail, just as the anchor is leaving the ground; you will then be running before the wind; and if you wish to luff quickly have the mainsail up as smartly as you can.
If the wind and tide be in opposite directions, and the wind be so strong that it masters the tide, the vessel riding to the wind with the tide coming up astern, the effect of the rudder will be reversed, so that to cant the vessel's head to port the helm must be put to port, instead of to starboard, as would be the case if the vessel had headway.
It sometimes happens, when one is anchored in a crowded narrow place with a strong tide running and but a light breeze blowing, that one cannot get under way in the ordinary manner without running a great risk of drifting foul of vessels anchored
