Sue wrote: > No, it's shiny private boats we avoid. Hire boaters either know what they are doing or will listen to advice. Private boaters very often don't do either.
I think that you're displaying your predjudices a little here Sue, just because the boat is shiny it doesn't mean that the boater is going to be (by default) slow, agressive or inefficent. Some private boats are crewed by people who can be one or all of the above but shiny-ness isn't necessarily linked to those traits. Roger
