Brumsaint, when airing ones frustrations in writing on a forum such as this, the person reading the post interprets the tone of the writers voice, I'm advising you of this as from your posts you are coming across extremely rude, which I am truly hoping that you are not intentionally doing. However if it is your aim then I'm completely perplexed as to why you would be so rude to some of the most friendly and helpful people on the canal.
Also if it is the case that you are just being rude then god help me if I ever come across you on the cut after my first experience of taking full control of my dad's boat on Monday and zigzagging for a couple of miles with the multiple apologys to my dad for the several new scratches I added to his boat. And that was in broad daylight going strait ahead!