"Jessica B" wrote in message
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I guess I'm still stuck on the anchor question... for people who
aren't really strong in the upper body... I can see why you might not
want to rely on an electrically driven winch to raise the anchor,
because if you did and ran out of battery, you'd be stuck. So... what
about a manually operated winch? I was at the Home Depot and saw a
hand crank winch. Wouldn't that work?




I searched the Home Depot website and they didn't show any winches at all
except for one little electric winch so I don't have a clue what you might
have been looking at. Anyway, something not built specifically for the
rigors of salt water and salt air will, in very short order, turn into
rubbish on the foredeck of a sailboat.