Originally Posted by fixer

Very nice pictures of your amphibious fleet Lloyd. I particularly like the Carbon Cub where it appears to be on approach to a landing in the snow in a lite snowfall. Puts me in mind of a large hawk with talons outstretched about to pick up a snack.
Oh and the spray pic of the cub taxi on water says it all. I have two access covers for mine and I have recovered one and did not cut out the holes. I have also put flaps of covering over the exits of the push rods as the original owner cut them out a bit large.

Originally Posted by fixer

I bought the Cub recently from the original owner who had assembled it and attached the floats, so I don't know if they were pre-drilled. The plane had never been flown. The instructions don't mention drilling or any measuring for location, so I expect they were drilled. I believe the floats can be predrilled and still locate correctly on any 25 size plane as long as the plane has been built with the landing gear locations provided for those floats and gear. But you know how assuming the manufacturer has it right can turn around and bite.
When I get an arf I expect nothing more than a reasonably well assembled and covered airframe. The rest is up to me to verify, experiment with, and re-engineer. For me, that's part of the flight. By the time it's in the air, I know it like a pilot would.

Originally Posted by fixer

I just tried your method Tomahawk, and Go figure, the plumb falls dead over the step. The Cub has a positive incidence on the hor. stab. so leveling the stab. to horizontal makes the (reference line) planes attitude nose down. I could easily change the balance to match, by sliding the batt. forward, so I think I will just try it there first.

I have been looking at spray rails too, I don't see how you can get away without them.