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www.marinelink.com MN35sioning. Perhaps more importantly, the YoYo?s contained springcoil elimi- nates injuries due to rope memory. And, in an industry where a primary cost of operating tonnage ? especiallyhere in the United States ? can be claims from seamen for on-the-job injuries, safety gains achieved through the YoYo Winch can, for some opera- tors, eclipse operational gains.Today, over 3,000 YoYo winches, representing just 5 percent of the market, are in operation on the nation?s waterways. For the larger operator who might operate thou-sands of barges and has not yet made the switch, the potential downstream benefits are easy to calculate. And since there have been no instances of YoYo winches ever fouling, the sav- ings go well beyond time clocked to make up the unit. A barge with afouled ?birdnested? standard winch must go out of service until rectified. That?s just one of many reasons com- panies like American Electric Power and Campbell Transportation Compa¬ny (CTC) have chosen the Patterson YoYo Winch for fleet oper- ations.In the more than 100 years since the first patent to tie barges together wastaken out, the technology hasarguably not moved forward very much ? until now. Today, three pri- mary manufacturers distribute multi- ple winches. Someday, the simple utility of YoYo Winches could eclipse all of them. Appealing strictly to the bottom line, the use of YoYo Winches over the breadth of a large inland fleet can annually save towing companies millions of dollars. That?s not only a wise move; it?s a safe bet. www.pattersonmfg.com MN#1 (32-42):MN 2011 Layouts 1/5/2012 1:34 PM Page 35