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DECK EQUIPMENT (Credit: all images courtesy of Patterson Manufacturing) ‘Securing’ the Inland Markets with

Innovative Standardization

Patterson Manufacturing follows its substantial success in the barge winch markets with an equally impressive boat-to-barge coupling system.

By Joseph Keefe n 2008, Pittsburgh-based Patterson Manufacturing same sort of revolution in the niche boat-to-barge cou-

Company developed the YoYo Barge Winch, a revolu- pling markets.

tionary design that re? ected a total re-thinking of the On the heels of the now ubiquitous and highly success-

I way winches do their job. Fast forward to 2015 and the ful YoYo winch, Patterson Manufacturing has now intro-

YoYo has penetrated North American inland markets in duced an equally innovative Self-Aligning Roller Chock a big way, in just a few years. Even as the “YoYo” winch (SARC) for the inland barge industry. has arguably become the inland standard in barge winches According to Patterson itself, their patent-pending Self- – especially considering the 10,000th YoYo unit sale was Aligning Roller Chocks (S.A.R.C.) are the next evolution recorded last year – Patterson has plans to engineer the in boat to barge coupling. Effectively utilized for both face

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