Mooring arrangement

1. A mooring arrangement for a floating vessel, the mooring arrangement comprising:

a linear anchor winch situated at or near a deck of the vessel;

a mooring arm bracket coupled to the linear anchor winch; and

an elongate mooring arm having a chain stopper, the elongate mooring arm being coupled to the mooring arm bracket via an articulating joint, said arrangement being adapted to receive an anchor chain wherein the bracket is attached to the vessel at a gunwale of the vessel, so that the bracket is adapted to at least partially extend along a deck of the vessel and is adapted to at least partly extend along a hull of the vessel, the anchor winch is coupled to or integrated with the bracket at the deck of the vessel.

2. The mooring arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the anchor winch is adapted to be arranged on the deck of the vessel.

3. The mooring arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the anchor winch has a traction direction along a surface of the deck perpendicular to the gunwale of the vessel.

4. The mooring arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the winch is movably along the deck so as to be positioned in line with a selected one of a plurality of fairlead arrangements.

5. The mooring arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the winch is moveable on a set of tracks that extends substantially in parallel with the gunwale.

6. The mooring arrangement according claim 4 , wherein the fairlead arrangement comprising a chain stopper arrangement.

7. The mooring arrangement according to claim 4 , wherein the bracket having a coupling for coupling to the fairlead arrangement, the coupling being situated outside of the gunwale.

8. The mooring arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the bracket having end portions for supporting the winch.