Mine is on the boat deck. If you look at my avitar, you will see a green kayak on the port side of the boat deck -- the raft is in a cradle on the starboard side, opposite that kayak location.
While not as convenient as the cockpit location could be would be (at least if I were deploying it before there was a lot of water in the cockpit), it is not in the way and I can still easily throw it in the water from its location on the boat deck, and if the boat is halfway submerged, the boat deck is a better location. Hopefully, I never have to put the theory to the test.
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