If this does not work, but results in sternway, shove the tiller clear over to the opposite side.
As you begin lowering the anchor, the helmsman can shift the engine into idle reverse, so that the vessel just begins making slight sternway about the time the anchor reaches the bottom.
You do not want to make headway or sternway but simply pivot with a continuous motion.
Be sure that the rudder is amidships, or else aimed to port if the boat starts making sternway.
Try dropping the anchor while simultaneously backing down under power, making sternway, to see how the boat handles.
Definition of sternway in US English:
sternway
nounˈstərnwāˈstərnweɪ
Backward movement of a ship.
（船的）后退，倒驶
we begin making sternway toward the shoal
我们开始朝着浅滩倒退行驶。
Example sentencesExamples
Try dropping the anchor while simultaneously backing down under power, making sternway, to see how the boat handles.
You do not want to make headway or sternway but simply pivot with a continuous motion.
Be sure that the rudder is amidships, or else aimed to port if the boat starts making sternway.
If this does not work, but results in sternway, shove the tiller clear over to the opposite side.
As you begin lowering the anchor, the helmsman can shift the engine into idle reverse, so that the vessel just begins making slight sternway about the time the anchor reaches the bottom.