I played Tales of Symphonia and got to the part where you need to go into town and get the boat to go to the other place.

The boat isn't there.

I try a few things and it refuses to come, so I start all over again.

This time, the boat is there. Unfortunately, I forget to go to go someplace before going and defeating Volt. Thus I am stuck yet again as I cannot find the way to get to the place I missed and I can't go any farther.

At least I know basically what happens in it all, but still... =/