mine came with the anchor mounted out on the deck....there are some rubber holder things that the anchor slides into that keeps it from bouncing out....then I have a hole in the deck covered with a chrome plated clam shell thing(I'm sure there is a real name for it)...and then the rope is stored in the anchor locker down below....
I have a cleat mounted up top to tie it off to when in use. kind of hard to see in the pic
agreed though that a bow pulpit is the way to go.
