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GA pilot reported low speed contact with pontoon boat after a water landing.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1677816 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201908 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Small Aircraft High Wing 1 Eng Fixed Gear |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Route In Use | Visual Approach |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Single Pilot Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Private |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 20 Flight Crew Total 80 Flight Crew Type 20 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown |
Narrative:
[My] seaplane landed long and touching down past the target beamed point with added forward momentum that extended the stop point. [This] resulted [in] impact with a pontoon boat and damages to floats. Started a second path over the lake as a downwind path over the far right of the long side of the lake to review boat traffic and evaluate wind and water conditions. After identifying a target landing path of over 2500 ft and touchdown point then started my base to final turn and lined up with high trees to my right and lvr (landing visual reference). As I descended below the tree line with 10-degree flaps and following procedure to evaluate my altitude over water with peripheral vision and manage sink rate at the time of the flare when reaching ground effect. A target of landing within 1000 ft and maintain 300 to 500 added distance to taxi forward to a sandbar where many boats set up. The weather condition; hot; humid; with light variable wind; possible wind changes to a tailwind; alignment to a straight wall of tall trees on the right side where the beamed target point was harder to recognize below the tree line. [The] high [and] somewhat narrow terrain around this lake made spacing left/right during approach important to a straight landing path.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: GA pilot reported low speed contact with pontoon boat after a water landing.
Narrative: [My] seaplane landed long and touching down past the target beamed point with added forward momentum that extended the stop point. [This] resulted [in] impact with a pontoon boat and damages to floats. Started a second path over the lake as a downwind path over the far right of the long side of the lake to review boat traffic and evaluate wind and water conditions. After identifying a target landing path of over 2500 ft and touchdown point then started my base to final turn and lined up with high trees to my right and LVR (Landing Visual Reference). As I descended below the tree line with 10-degree flaps and following procedure to evaluate my altitude over water with peripheral vision and manage sink rate at the time of the flare when reaching ground effect. A target of landing within 1000 ft and maintain 300 to 500 added distance to taxi forward to a sandbar where many boats set up. The weather condition; hot; humid; with light variable wind; possible wind changes to a tailwind; alignment to a straight wall of tall trees on the right side where the beamed target point was harder to recognize below the tree line. [The] high [and] somewhat narrow terrain around this lake made spacing left/right during approach important to a straight landing path.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.