Mounting a life raft

I'm contemplating buying a life raft in anticipation of retiring next spring and doing some extended cruising to Alaska and spending more time on the offshore coast of the Pacific Northwest than the inside straights. Has anyone installed a canister life raft on an E38? if so, can you tell me where you chose to put it, how you installed it and what you may do differently if you did it over again.

Frank Potter
Spirit Moon E38
Victoria, BC

Based on the filled holes evident on the coach roof it looks as though a previous owner mounted a raft forward of the traveler on the port side. I imagine that it was on a rack that would allow lines to run under it to the cockpit.

Just aft of the forward hatch

The rack is properly thru-bolted to the deck, but to remove the rack when we don't want the raft aboard means getting under the headliner