Marine Winch

As an important mooring equipment, mooring winch is used during mooring or loading and unloading operations to hold or keep a ship in position on dock without drifting; at the meantime, it can adjust and compensate for the deviation caused by vibration with constant tension, which plays a very important role in ship mooring and allows the operators to position and secures the ship carefully when it comes into port and reduces the risk of accidents and injuries.

1--According to control mode, automatic and manual winches are optional; manual mooring winch is not often used nowadays especially on large boats since it requires much man power, and it’s not as powerful as other winches;

2--According to drive mode, there are steam mooring winch, hydraulic mooring winch, electric mooring winch and diesel mooring winch; usually hydraulic winches have larger rated capacity than electric winches and the former is adopted on large ships more often than the latter; sometimes, the mooring winch can also have combined power to drive the winch during mooring operations;

3--According to quantity of mooring drum connected with each drive device, the winch can have one, two or more drums, that is to say, there are single drum mooring winch, double drum mooring winch and multiple drum mooring winch; the drums can be divided or integral on the winch; mooring windlass with different number of drums have different rope capacities and rated capacities, the windlass will be produced according to customers’ needs;

4--According to brake type and braking action mode, there are belt type, disc type, mechanical spiral and spring action type.