Here is our brand new Powercat, we first set eyes on it in real life - as opposed to email pictures on the Saturday before we collected it. So this is a picture taken in early February 2008.
This is what all the excitement was about - and what we paid over £37,000 inc Vat for!!!
Jay Pengelly took us to the Cornish coast and gave us a demonstration ride on another cat, as we had been persuaded that to take ours out for a sea trial was impractical for various reasons.
Electrical fault in the rear lights of the trailer being attended to at the last minute.
Monday February 11th 2008 and we are off!!
The first drive towing the Powercat was a white knuckle experience. Particularly as we had our European car to pull it with and the first leg was through the UK to Poole, to catch the ferry to Cherbourg, so the driver was on the wrong side!!!
We drove very carefully not wanting anything to happen to our new treasure. Full of excitement and looking forward to getting it home.
There were lots of local fishermen eagerly awaiting our return as well. They were keen to see this new cornish boat. We had told them about the handling characteristics and they were hoping we would take them out fishing on it.
Another friend who runs a local watersports centre and another pal were also keen on going water ski-ing.
The future looked like it would be packed with fun and aqua ecstasy.
We had paid premium bucks for a premium craft. It had been built specifically for us and we had been told by Jay how we semed to have 'thought of everything' in our discussions about what we needed in order to make this the ideal boat for us.
We had researched the kind of accessories and fittings required for a med boat and got a lot of info from Rod Heikell's blog in particular his advice regarding bimini designs and mosquito cover for the mediterranean .
Hubby was familiar with Rod Heikell as he had numerous books by him as hubby is a long experienced sailor with Yacht master Theory under his belt and tons of sailing hours under his belt as well. He had eschewed getting his Yacht Master Practical Exams sorted, and decided instead to get his qualification as a Powerboat Instructor - in preparation for our new purchase.
Hubby does not believe in doing things by halves - if he gets qualified - HE GETS QUALIFIED!!!
Number one son also got his PB2 sorted out - so we were well ready for our meditteranean boating.
