I picked up a Wave King at a garage sale this last summer and have begun to build it. There are a few things about this kit I don't like such as the tip floats. How on earth can you butt join two pieces of plastic and make a watertight seam? At the same time you have to fasten a wire mounting bracket to them. Instructions are really vague about this. Just a couple of drawings of the finished product.
I have been using Polyurethane glue for most of the wood to plastic assembly, it seems to provide a pretty good bond. One change I am going to make is that I am going to make it a twin engine job. This seems a lot easier than the pod provided in the kit. That big bow wave scares me. I am going to mount the engines as high as I can and incorporate a couple of degrees of up thrust to help them clear the wave. If there is a problem I will add the spray rails as per Jim Casey.
Are there any more of these planes out there? It is quite an attractive design which only a moulded plastic or fiberglass hull can provide.
Peter