Thank you Jason for the very useful contact regarding this above problem.
I have been taking this subject a little further and have made some progress.
To enable the repeating table to show correctly on my machine I found I needed to select the Bindings tab in order to show the Recordset.
If the Recordset is shown and or selected via the Server Behaviours tab the repeating table is not created correctly.
I also had to change the Repeating Table code a little and move the opening <?php above the opening <tr>
<table width="734">
<?php do { ?>
<tr>
and balance the bottom as:
</tr>
<?php } while ($row_rsBoats = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsBoats)); ?>
</table>
This note may assist me or anyone else as a reminder.
John