We had stopped for the night in a nice little motorway lodge and had croissants and coffee for breakfast. Our brand new Powercat 525 Evolution on which we had spent all the equity from our recently sold house, has been safe and sound for the night in a locked car park.
We checked it over, checked the car, and set off again.
The plan was to get over Mont Blanc and as far into Italy as possible before stopping for another night. We had felt quite uneasy travelling through Italy on the trip to Redruth, Cornwall.
The auto route from Ancona to Mont Blanc through Italy seemed to be the UK equivalent of driving through such salubrious areas as the industrial sections of Bradford, Birmingham, Manchester and so on.
The smell of pollution had been dreadful, and whenever we stopped for petrol or toilet requirements, we were accosted by dubious types trying to sell us laptops or other dodgy items.
So we didn't want to spend too long on that part of the journey.
Here's a picture I wasn't sure would come out well. I stuck the digital camera out of the car window, pointed it in the general direction of the Powercat 525 Evolution as it was towing along on the motorway, and just hoped for the best!!
So this is what a powerboat driving along at 110 kilometres an hour looks like!!!
Powercats 525 Evolution's first glimpse of snowy mountains.
The road looked nice and straight, but I suppose we should have known it was too good to be true and that there were problems and danger up ahead.
At this point we were blissfully ignorant of the challenges to come. The sign was just a direction we were following.
But we were soon aware of the dangers!!!
This road looks like a thin and very high shelf, teetering what seemed like miles above the valley.
Yes we did have to tow our £37,000+ powercat 525 evolution over that precipice!!
Don't look down everyone!!
Everyone closed their eyes, except for the poor driver who just kept them firmly on the road ahead and tried to ignore the chasm either side.
Brand New Powercat Owner - the stress and fear and concentration !
Our poor driver had already suffered above and beyond the call of duty to bring safely home our Powercats 525 Evolution only to face another warning sign !!
Next post will cover - how to get a powerboat through a mountain and why we took no pictures of Italy!!
