Andre, Thanks very much for that information, it's always interesting to get further detail like that. If the anchor chain was brought back then it's almost certain that the anchor would be mounted at rail level, probably on a cathead as you say or reinforced mounting as was naval practice in the late 19th C. The problem I have is that the kit isn't all that accurate anyway and what there is isn't all that well executed so I took the decision to modify it to my own requirements so that, while based on the Medea, I will treat it as being a generic steam yacht of the period and give it another name.
As far as the anchors are concerned I will just leave it as per my last illustration except that I will rig some block and tackle in a logical way. That way there will be nothing hanging over the side to snag on anything the model hits!
The plans you have sound very interesting and I would imagine would make a great basis for a 100% scale model of this very attractive ship. I did visit San Diego in September 2001(!) but never got to see the Medea as our travel arrangements were completely disrupted due to the World Trade Centre tragedy. We were due to fly to Las Vegas but all flights were grounded and we had to drive there instead. The phone system more or less crashed and it took two days to get approval from the car hire company in San Francisco to drop the vehicle off at Las Vegas airport. We did have an enjoyable three days in Vegas though with a chopper trip over the Grand Canyon and another along the Strip at night. Not something to be forgotten!
Colin