The Sea Storm features a cantilever shoulder-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration, with four seats optional, an enclosed cockpit under a hinged canopy, retractable conventional landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration. There are two small airfoil sponsons for water balance mounted low on the fuselage. The aircraft has a highly swept fin and rudder.
The aircraft wings are made from aluminum sheet with some fibreglass parts, while the hull is composite. Its 9.241NaN1 span wing mounts large flaps and has a wing area of 12.25m2. The cabin width is 125cm (49inches). The acceptable power range is 100to and the standard engine used is the 1150NaN0 Lycoming O-235 powerplant.
The Sea Storm has a typical empty weight of 309kg (681lb) and a gross weight of 609kg (1,343lb), giving a useful load of 300kg (700lb). With full fuel of the payload for pilot, passenger and baggage is 229kg (505lb).
The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off on land with a 1150NaN0 engine is 1220NaN0 and the landing roll is 1450NaN0. On the water the take-off run is 2500NaN0 and the landing run is 1890NaN0 for the two place version.
The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 700 hours or 550 hours from the quick-build kit.
By 1998 the company reported that 25 kits had been sold and 12 aircraft were completed and flying.
In February 2014 one example was registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, although two had been registered at one time.[2]
