OK GUYS!,
Here it is.
The Mariner flies! It is well made with a lot of detail built in. I just finished the test flight, and it went without a hitch! Handling was superb! Take-offs and landings were excellent. It takes off like a real plane. Up on step in a short distance. Landing is the same. Just fly it level and power down. It will sink smoothly. I have an OS .46 LA with a 10/7 3 blade prop on it. approx 10,450 rpm.
I would highly recommend this plane to everyone! For extra pics,
email me and I will send them. Mine is dressed in USCG colors and decals.

Nice looking plane! Congrats! :thumbup:

AL

I second the "thumbs-up". On of the clubmembers here has one, and it flies like an ugly stick. No bad habits, inverted flight is about the same as upright, with only a smigde of forward pressure on the stick. Fly it really slow and it does not drop a wingtip. And it has a v-bottom hull so it tracks nicely and is much less likely to skip on landing.

Just a really sweet model.

Does anybody know the rationale for the little widgets that glue to the bottom in front of the step?

Can't wait to get mine in the air, 4 of us got one at the WRAM show, JimCasey the little widgets are to break the vacume created at the step, Kind of like when you drive behind a semi truck, The vacume just pulls you along and the step will hold it in the water but with the widgets it helps break up the vacume created.

Dauntae