Sea Plane variants don’t steer properly in water

I landed the PC-6 w/ floats on a lake and it behaved really strangely.

I would try to turn it, but it would snap back like it was on a bungie cord. I’d firewall the throttle and it would swing toward the direction I wanted to go and then it would fling itself back to the original direction.

It was impossible to orient it for a takeoff given the terrain.

Raising or lowering the water rudders made no difference.

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