Well yesterday was the busiest yet for my little blog. 350 visitors and 1409 page views!!!
I don't expect it will keep up, but to all my readers I say a big gobsmacked welcome 
I was talking to hubby (a starnge word that has never passed my lips but which seems to work well on the internet for some strange reason) this morning about how we feel about the Powercats people.
As a male he feels a rather antagonistic towards them because of the fact that their mistakes put his family in danger and I understand that attitude. My own personal feeling is more of disappointment and bewilderment. I can't understand how someone could allow this to have happened in the first place, nor why they weren't immediately jumping over themselves to put it all right.
This blog was always intended, but I had originally planned it to be a joyous celebration of our boating exploits.
Hubby on the Powercat 525 Evolution a couple of days before the 'incident' that prompted us to pull it out of the water and call in the experts!
When it quickly became apparant that it was not to turn out that way I first felt that I wouldn't be able to blog our towing road trip. But then I thought 'Oh why on earth shouldn't I?'
It was bad enough being let down about the boat without feeling creatively stifled as well.
So I started my blog as planned but it is almost impossible to prevent underlying knowledge creeping into the tone, and as things progressed and I realised just how dangerous the boat had been, I felt it was important to tell the whole story.
It felt that the builders weren't taking it seriously enough and if that was the case then who else might be at risk?
Maybe some people could just sit tight and hope for the best, but I couldn't do that and sleep comfortably at night thinking someone else might not be as lucky in getting through it unhurt if their boat failed them the same way ours had.
If at some point we are reassured that Powercats have made changes to their procedures and materials decisions to ensure that their boats are safe then of course I will be happy to publicise that as well.
But so far we haven't been.
