Good to hear from you, Jim. Flaps and I are still kicking. He'll be 89 this November, so he has slowed down a lot, but he is still doing "projects."

I had a long take off run with the Sea Deuce. Flaps had the fuselage-float incidence ( or is it decalage?) set at about zero. The Diamond Dust airfoil is diamond shaped and fairly this for speed. I think when I added up for lift off, I was dragging the rear of the float and slowing down. I have added ply shims under the front struts so I am now at 2-3 degrees fuselage up with float top at zero. I hope this will let it more or less fly off without much elevator.

Flaps and I were talking on the way home yesterday about the difference in set-up for a plane with a lifting airfoil vs. one with a symmetrical airfoil. I have noticed the long takeoff run with planes with a symmetrical airfoil before, even with the way I usually over power my planes. I have been meaning to try a little takeoff flap or flaperon, but haven't gotten around to it. The best plane I had for taking off was a Stinger 40 with tail dragger, tri-floats. I could rotate to a good angle without the tail float dragging.