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Anchor & Mooring Equipment

Windlasses, mooring winches, capstans, chains, lines, and fittings for anchoring and mooring operations.

17types 274manufacturers 3,450models
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Types in this category.

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Anchor Windlass
An anchor windlass has to do two different jobs with the same machine: hold a stationary ship against wind and current on the brake alone, and haul in chain under power, and it is usually the brake, not the motor, that fails first.
1,129 models
Mooring Winch
A mooring winch differs from a windlass in duty, not just name: it holds a rope or wire under sustained tension against surge and tide, and modern constant-tension winches pay line in and out automatically to keep that load steady.
726 models
Anchor Chain (Stud Link)
Every common link in stud link chain carries a cast or forged stud across its waist that stops the link from flattening and kinking under load, which is why class surveys inspect stud condition, not just link diameter.
421 models
Capstan
A capstan turns on a vertical axis and is built purely for warping lines under power; unlike a windlass it does not stow chain, so where deck space is tight it does the mooring job without a chain locker footprint.
259 models
Mooring Roller
A mooring roller's job is to change the direction of a mooring line under load while keeping friction and chafe low, and the choice between a plain fairlead, a roller fairlead and a panama-type roller chock decides how much wear the rope itself takes on every mooring operation.
244 models
Windlass
A windlass is the deck machine that lets go and heaves in the anchor cable through a chain wheel matched to the ship's chain size, and on most cargo ships it doubles as a mooring winch on the same shaft, unlike a warping drum or capstan which has no chain-handling function at all.
235 models
Panama Chock
Panama Chock
A Panama chock is a closed, oversized fairlead let into the bulwark specifically to take the canal's own towing lines during a Panama Canal transit, sized and positioned to a fixed specification the canal authority checks rather than to the ship's own mooring plan.
203 models
Mooring Lines (Synthetic)
Synthetic mooring lines trade the abrasion resistance of steel wire for elasticity and light weight, but that same elasticity stores energy that turns a parted line into a whip capable of killing anyone standing in its snap-back zone.
113 models
Anchor (HHP/SHHP)
Anchor (HHP/SHHP)
27 models
Combined Windlass/Mooring
A combined windlass/mooring winch drives both the anchor cable lifter and one or two mooring drums from a single prime mover and gearbox, saving deck space and installed power compared with separate anchor windlasses and mooring winches, at the cost of not being able to run both duties at full power simultaneously.
27 models
Fender
Fender
19 models
Anchor Handling Winch
An anchor handling winch is the powered drum-and-wire system that deploys, tensions and recovers rig anchors under dynamic loads no windlass is built for, the defining piece of deck machinery on any AHTS or offshore support vessel.
14 models
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Also in this category: Mooring Winch (Electric/Hydraulic)
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The windlass is the machine that pays out and heaves in the anchor chain, and separately from that, holds the ship at anchor once the required scope of chain is out. Those are two different duties on the same machine: heaving power comes from an electric or hydraulic motor through a gearbox to the chain wheel, also called the gypsy or cable lifter, while holding at anchor is done by the chain stopper and the windlass brake, not by the motor, which is normally declutched once the anchor is down…

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