Our sailing club has the question about taxiing seaplanes on a written test. Years ago someone that had taken the test came up to me and said that he had a seaplane license, and his job was working with FAA regulations. He said that he was going to tell us we were wrong about seaplanes not having right of way, but he decided to check first and found out he was wrong.

I think the chances that seaplane pilots don't know the rules for while they're on the water is pretty high.

He also said he got interested in sailing because he got curious as to why sailboats kept turning in random directions to get in his way.

John