Narrative:

I was flying a maule amphibian delivering it to the person who had purchased it from me earlier. The owner was buying the fuel for the trip. After a fuel stop; I was taking off in a strong crosswind and lost control of the aircraft due to the crosswind. I lifted the amphibian off the runway too soon and I believe the left wing stalled due to gusty conditions and caused the amphibian to turn south into the wind and contacted the ground with the forward parts of the floats. I feel the cause of the incident was the strong crosswind on the amphibian aircraft. I believe that if I had kept the amphibian on the ground a longer time and allowed the airspeed to increase before allowing the amphibian to fly; I could have avoided this incident.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A pilot reported loosing control of a Maule Amphibian on takeoff after he lifted off to soon in a crosswind causing a wing to stall and forward parts of the floats to contact the runway.

Narrative: I was flying a Maule Amphibian delivering it to the person who had purchased it from me earlier. The owner was buying the fuel for the trip. After a fuel stop; I was taking off in a strong crosswind and lost control of the aircraft due to the crosswind. I lifted the Amphibian off the runway too soon and I believe the left wing stalled due to gusty conditions and caused the Amphibian to turn south into the wind and contacted the ground with the forward parts of the floats. I feel the cause of the incident was the strong crosswind on the Amphibian aircraft. I believe that if I had kept the Amphibian on the ground a longer time and allowed the airspeed to increase before allowing the Amphibian to fly; I could have avoided this incident.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.