We compare an anchor windlass to an anchor winch to help you decide which is right for installation and use on your boat.

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility employees and ship’s force worked together to repair the anchor windlass on USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in about a third of the time it ...

The Below Deck Mediterranean crew panics when two major issues arise on the final charter day. Get the details.

This article was originally published with the title “Ships' Windlasses, Capstans and Anchor Gearing” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 7 No. 15 (October 1862), p. 225 doi:10.1038 ...

As Skipp swung the bow back into gale, hoping to drop the two smaller anchors, an electric short in the engine room erupted in the blue flash. He lost steering and power to the anchor windlass.

An anchor from the ship COURTESY OF PAUL G. ALLEN A bell from the doomed ship COURTESY OF PAUL G. ALLEN Two anchor windlass mechanisms COURTESY OF PAUL G. ALLEN The hull number 35, identifying the ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries' reports that its Newport News Shipbuilding division has successfully completed anchor testing on the aircraft carrier Gerald R.

"To prevent water ingestion in the anchor windlass room, the existing anchor winch, hydraulic unit and mooring capstan were replaced with a single electric capstan (chain) winch on the main deck.