The fire service used winches and cutting gear to rescue him from the wrecked cab.

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Electric winches save the owner from having to haul in the sails by hand.

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Winches hoist in aggregates, allowing a spate of road repairs and housing construction.

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Hunters use swamp buggies--decked out with gun rests, dog boxes and winches for hauling in game--to negotiate a maze of cypress, palmettos and scrub oaks.

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At 138 feet she's a navy-blue missile with a nearly flat deck, huge winches and an almost impossibly sharp bow that overhangs the water like a scimitar.

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And on this dazzling sheet, spread under the blackness of the clouds and emitting a bluish glow, Captain MacWhirr could catch a desolate glimpse of a few tiny specks black as ebony, the tops of the hatches, the battened companions, the heads of the covered winches, the foot of a mast.

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