Victoria installed her windlass topside aft of the cutter stay just forward of the front hatch. 
 

The design & installation features	Keeps weight off the bow
	The all chain rode now sits below the waterline thus it keeps the weight low
	It is easy to access the windlass and is protected with a canvas cover.
	As an aside bonus, gives more deck storage locker since the windlass is no longer in the forward locker. Now more items such as  emergency rope rode, anchoring gear, snubbers, fenders, etc. can be stored topside.
	As it turns out, the commercial s.s. anchor stopper's holes fit near exactly to the bolt holes in the anchor roller. It required a small bit of "dremel" tooling  to make do.

Image of Tigress windlass sitting in position. chain now has good direct 90 degree angle to bow roller. All chain rode is fed below via 2" PVC slightly slanted first toward the centerline in the upper compartment v-berth then back to and at an angle between v-berth cushions. This drops the chain into the deepest part of the storage under the foot section of the v-berth berths.

 The all chain rode now sits back, low and below the waterline. Additionally, it does not block the haweshole pipe feeding out or retrieving. The deck anchor locker is now used for storage of the lighter in weight, backup emergency rode, made up of 225' 5/8" nylon rode and 25' of BB chain.

Image showing  cut in aft portion of anchor locker lid. Added a  raised fairlead scoop here so the chain travels forward from the windlass, under the lid thru this fairlead funnel made in the back of the lid, thus forward and out the front end of the locker thru it's existing fairlead funnel. This way, the locker is opened easily out of the way when raising or lowering the primary chain rode; rather then having the chain run over the top of the locker lid and block it's opening.

Image showing pvc pipe (painted brown and soon to be decoratively "twined") feeding chain back from the upper v-berth locker to the storage under foot section of v-berth forward. Hand control box is plugged in, directly behind the pvc pipe, and accessed thru the front hatch where it is hung on a lanyard and easily reached. I tried not to alter the existing wood in the v-berth cabin as much as possible. Notice the circuit breaker switch installed on the bulkhead forward between the v-berths, in place of a 110 plug socket.