Maybe pre-arranged photo opportunity? A video taken from the slowing plane would dramatize the boat
outrunning the aircraft. Notice the flaps are down? That increases lift, which works to shorten takeoffs and landings.
Don't believe it?
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https://youtube.com/shorts/hUiZIyndR...hRQd2fvdTOWVQG.
Definitely, the floatplane is legally there.
Illegally, the ocean-racer is flouting the NHMPs, while racing into the
Middle Ground Shoal markers.