Gypsy winch, also known as chain gypsy winch, is the winch with gypsy wheel that is used to wind the chain during anchoring operations and it is installed on ship deck. There are different types of gypsy windlasses as follows: electric single gypsy drum windlass, hydraulic single gypsy drum windlass, electric double gypsy drum windlass, hydraulic double gypsy drum windlass, electric single gypsy drum combined windlass, electric double gypsy drum combined windlass, hydraulic single gypsy drum combined windlass and hydraulic double gypsy drum combined windlass, diesel engine driven gypsy windlass and so on. Gypsy winches with different configurations are used on different shapes of vessels for anchoring operations.