Flight Crew Private; Flight Crew Sea; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 64; Flight Crew Total 8372; Flight Crew Type 1357
Situational Awareness; Communication Breakdown
Conflict Ground Conflict; Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control
General None Reported / Taken
Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors
I was planning to fly from the ZZZ airport to my home on the lake a distance of approximately 5 NM. I was solo; and did a weight and balance and determined I needed 45 pounds of ballast in the nose anchor compartment; and confirmed it was there. The winds were very light out of the south and I took off on Runway XX and turned towards my home. I went to do a 'splash and dash' on the lake before going to the house so after climbing to about 500 ft. I reduced power and did my pre-water landing checklist. On touchdown I immediately did a water loop with no injury to me or any other property; and minor damage to the plane. I must have let the nose get too low; and possibly was hit by an unnoticed boat wake. Since I had lake specific recurrency training on [Date] and [Date1]; have done [Number] water landings; [Number1] in the last year and [Number2] in the last 90 days I do not know what else I should have done.I did notify the tower that I had a problem and was heading back on the water to the seaplane ramp. They called the fire department and asked them to launch a boat to assist if needed. When I got to the seaplane ramp their launch vehicle; trailer; and boat were on the left side of the ramp. I tried to call the tower to ask them to have the equipment moved; but could not raise them. I then tried to get up the right side of the ramp; and the right main gear went off the ramp and was damaged. I feel personnel should not block runways; taxiways; or seaplane ramps when trying to help.
Seaplane pilot reported that during touchdown; the plane did a water loop; possibly as a result of the nose getting too low.