The intensity of typhoons is increasing due to the effects of global warming. These typhoons pass through the coast of Korea on an average of two to three times a year, causing a lot of damages. The harbor shelters for avoiding typhoons are congested with large and small vessels, so the distance between vessels is short, the veered out anchor chain is long, and there is a risk of collision due to dragging anchor caused by powerful winds. Therefore, this study aimed to quantitatively identify the degree of influence of external force factors on the experimental vessel during anchoring, and to provide basic data for setting the critical point of tension that can cause dragging anchor. The range of outlier of tension observed in the experimental vessel was -0.90 to 4.60 tons, and the ratio of outlier was approximately 5.07%. As a result of analyzing 184,008 samples of external force corresponding to this, a weak negative linear relationship was shown in the correlation between tension and external force for the current and wind direction whereas a positive correlation was shown for wind speed and current velocity. In this study, the effects of external force during anchoring on tension were in the order of wind speed, current velocity, current direction, and wind direction, and the ratios were 85.46%, 6.28%, 4.79%, and 3.47%, respectively. In future studies, we plan to quantitatively understand the relationship between holding power and tension indicated by the tension meter to determine the tension value that becomes the critical point of the dragging anchor.