Exactly what Fuji Abound said!
Not sure why you're clouding the issue here with talk of advanced low level flying over water around Vancouver Island Chuck. Agreed it sounds exciting and fun if properly taught by someone such as yourself, and I can understand how this practice may now be standard for guys like yourself after all these years, however this thread was about bad wx circuits (in the UK) therefore my worry is that the Sunday PPL members at our flying club start cahoonin' around the aerodrome at 3 feet (or whatever it is) until one of them porks it large!
As a very experienced instructor once told me:
"You may be able to drive 6 inches off the curb for 10 miles but you can't keep it up forever".
VFE.