J3 TRAINEE PLT BUMPED A SMALL BOAT DURING WATER TAXI PRACTICE.

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I WAS ON A TRAINING FLT WITH A FLT INSTRUCTOR ON A LAKE PRACTICING TAXIING A SEAPLANE. PRIOR TO TAXIING; I NOTICED ONE SMALL BOAT AND BROUGHT THAT TO THE ATTN OF THE FLT INSTRUCTOR WHO ALSO SAW THE BOAT. HE THEN SHOWED ME HOW TO TAXI AND HAD ME PRACTICE. I KEPT THE BOAT IN SIGHT AND INFORMED THE FLT INSTRUCTOR WHO TOLD ME TO GO AROUND THE BOAT TO THE R OF IT WHILE IN A L TURN. AS WE WERE ABOUT TO PASS THE BOAT; WE BUMPED INTO ANOTHER BOAT; WITH ONE OF OUR FLOATS. WE HAD NOT SEEN THE OTHER BOAT AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR TAXI PRACTICE. IT MUST HAVE SLOWLY PULLED OUT INTO THE EDGE OF THE LAKE. NO ONE WAS HURT AND WE WERE ABLE TO TAXI BACK TO THE SEAPLANE BASE. AS THIS WAS A TRAINING FLT THAT I WAS NOT THE PIC; I HAD TO TRUST THE JUDGEMENT OF THE FLT INSTRUCTOR TO CONDUCT A SAFE FLT WITH HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE LCL AREA AND SET PROCS. HAD I BEEN THE PIC; I WOULD HAVE AVOIDED ANY AREA WITH BOAT ACTIVITY AND SIMPLY DID THE FLT TRAINING AT OTHER LAKES IN THE AREA THAT HAD NO BOAT TFC AT ALL. TAXIING CLOSE TO OTHER BOATS DID NOT SEEM POLITE TO PEOPLE JUST TRYING TO RELAX AND CATCH FISH.