The Timber 1.5 looks like a good choice. It is the style I learned on. I use to think about flying off of water back when I was starting out. My thought process was that it is a wide open space I can utilize. What I did not consider back then was the possibility of dunking the plane. We like to think that once we get to a certain skill level that crashing will be a thing of the past. I do not find that to be true. We crash less and less, but we still crash.