cast anchor vs navigate

cast anchor

verb
  • To drop anchor or otherwise moor a ship. 

  • To take up a position. 

navigate

verb
  • To travel over water in a ship; to sail. 

  • To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course. 

  • To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism. 

  • To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle. 

  • To find a way through a difficult situation or process. 

How often have the words cast anchor and navigate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )