But while winches store your anchor rode on a rotating drum, a windlass anchor retrieval system doesn’t store anything. Instead, the unused portion of rope or chain is stored in a dedicated ...

Available from companies such as EZ Anchor Puller, Lewmar and Seachoice, anchor winches are characterized by an electrically powered drum that reels in and stores the rode, versus a windlass that uses ...

The test was also unsafe. To prevent further safety hazards and to save time, engineers determined the solution was to utilize a $500 thousand 100-ton anchor winch in a separate facility to ...

In offshore applications, huge lengths of rope are often housed on drums. The anchor winches on Saipem's Semac 1 pipe laying barge, for example, each hold 2,800 m of 76 mm diameter wire rope in 14 ...

Also, a double net-drum is to be utilized for net storage, and Rapp is also providing a Gilson winch, as well as a Research/Sounder Winch. A Rapp anchor winch with two capstans is also to be ...