I found a 2000# electric winch at Harbor Freight (harborfright.com) for $60 with a remote with power both IN AND OUT. The first pix tells it all. A U-bolt was used to bolt the winch to the forward mast support. The system uses a 4-wire harness. One wire goes to power on the tow vehicle (see the brown wire), one is ground (see the white wire), and the other two control the winch. The unit comes with 4 really heavy wires connected to the remote. Because I would be carrying far less than the 2000# capacity, the wiring I added is much smaller diameter and I judged it would be sufficient for my actual current draw. I used heavy duty speaker wire to extend the wiring to the remote so it would reach to the stern. A standard 4-prong trailer connector connects the remote/power to the winch. This way, the remote can be unplugged, coiled up, and stored in my setup box. I used a single plug connector to connect the brown wire to a hot wire that was available at the back of my truck.

Actually the wiring was pretty easy. The leads on the remote were labeled battery +, battery - and the other two leads were labeled something else. The battery + went to the brown wire connected to the hot wire on my truck. the battery - I simply grounded with the white wire on the mast support. So, the 4-prong connector connected to the winch has the white wire grounded to the mast support, a brown hot wire, and two wires connected to the winch. The only trick was keeping the wires straight as they stretch from the 4-prong connector to the remote...not a big deal really...fixed with masking tape tags with numbers.

I replace the wire cable on the winch with rope and used a metal clip (like a carabiner) to clip the rope to the jib.

Note the barber hauler in the pic. This guides the rope onto the winch.

The second pic is a close up of the U-bolt. I bought a standard U-bold at my local hardware store and beat it into the shape I wanted. Pretty easy.

The remaining pix show me raising the mast. The mast is supported on one shoulder and one hand is used to work the remote. I am very pleased with the results. Raising/lowering the mast single handed is not extremely easy.