"Northstars are a proven design, and a crowd pleaser. I know of two that had maiden-flight problems: One had the pilot become disoriented so it crashed (it does NOT look like a conventional plane, and it's fast) Use a high contrast color scheme, obviously different top and bottom."

And you've seen me fly the piss out of mine..... right Jim???

Northstars are excellent airplanes and very cool but not the same as what you would get building your Sea Shrike. The SS would be a much faster and more manuverable airplane and you would have the only one, right.... Hmm, I might build one then...