Ken Welter wrote:

   It was not much of a crash as it was a simple water loop that he
could have flown home with except for the fact that it had split a
seam in the old wooden hull. the holes that were in the hull came
from pulling the coot up on a rocky beach, like two foot diameter
rocks with a snatch block hooked up to a jet boat. I can't believe they
are wasting their time and our money calling this an accident.

  Raymond is a good friend and when he looped it he called me to
rescue him so I hooked up my coot trailer and headed up stopping a
Wall Mart to get four air beds to float it on which worked great.

  One of the cool things about the coot is the when you sink the hull
it will float on the wings for a long time until they eventually fill
up trough small leaks and control connections. He was able to taxi
with water clear up to the dash and up to his chest, that must have
been a weird feeling huh.

  The real hassle in the whole thing was that he found out that he was
in the Quinault Indian reservation and that it was a capital sin and
he was going to hell for landing there and we were dammed lucky to
get out of there with the plane and our scalps.
   Other than that it was absolutely an awesome place, a warm day and
very warm water despite the fact that the water comes off the glaciers in the
Olympic mountains in the background.

  Ken Welter

 
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