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Modern Boating Boat of the Year 2009 Awards
Powercat's popular PartyCat model wins the Family Boat of the Year 2009 (7-9m Australian) Award! Congratulations to all other category winners!
How Many Lives does a PowerCat Have?
This is the story of a very special Cat named ‘Nemeses’, who after having a very bad Cat Day, was given up as lost by her owners and all who knew her.
The story of Nemesis, the Powercat 268 Sports Cabriolet, belonging to Pauline & Garth Barrett, begins on the 16 September 2005. The Cat broke from her mooring at Days Gutter, on the Western shore of Moreton Island and disappeared during a ferocious but typical Queensland storm.
Thought lost, the boat was written off by the insurance company and her owners. All were sure, considering the ferocity of the storm, that she was on the bottom of the ocean and, apart from the odd encounter with Davy Jones, would never be seen again. However, it seems, you just can’t keep a good Cat down, especially a Powercat.
Almost 16 months later, a PowerCat employee saw, on a fishing website a picture of the Cat, covered in barnacles, floating upturned off the Continental Shelf and recognized it as the Barretts boat. This created quite a buzz around the PowerCat office with Steve Shaw, the Owner of PowerCat Marine planning a trip out to the boat to tow it back to land. However, this proved unnecessary as 2 days later the Cat washed up on the beach at Coolum.
Although no-one is exactly sure where Nemeses ventured during her lost months, some have said that she may have drifted as far as South America, though The Great Barrier Reef and back seems more logical to most.
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She is now resting comfortably at PowerCat Marine and will now be used for research and development. What a clever Cat!!!
So what does this story tell you about PowerCats? Well, for one thing, they don’t sink easily!! Although Nemeses was overturned for the last few months, (this was judged by men who know a lot about barnacles), sinking was just not going to happen as the hull remained watertight. The targa arch was broken off but the engines were attached, the cabin was still sealed and the life jackets were still in the originals plastic bags. Even the EPIRB was retrieved.
The Courier Mail
The Nemesis Reborn!
....and having the time of her life!
Having been given the chance of a new life by the Team back at the Powercat factory, Nemesis has recently been spotted galavanting around the gleaming waters of 1770 on the Queensland coast. She's also had time on her side (lucky her!) to get amongst the local catch. Aren't we all jealous about her new lifestyle!
And...how good does she look?
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