On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:58:25 -0700 (PDT), Katie Ohara
wrote:

On a
sailboat you can use the sail winches to haul it up, I've done that.
Attach a "messenger line" to the anchor chain and run it around your
winch to do this.
Mechanical advantage is easy to get especially if you have even a
single block and a bit of rope.

Good plan for a sailboat, was hoping to see something like that with
rolling hitches on the chain, etc.

Power boats are a little trickier since they don't have a bunch of
sheet and halyard winches laying around, quite possibly not even a
snatch block.