Mark wrote
I'll tell you why. After realizing the skipper I looked at wasn't
LSA I searched the ads and found more than one of them
that weighted 1100 lbs. This led me to speculate that maybe
there was a variant that did qualify. I like to believe the best
in people and wanted to think I was wrong.

This is what Wikipedia has to say about the Skipper's weight.

Empty weight: 1,100 lb (500 kg)
Useful load: 580 lb (260 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 1,675 lb (760 kg)

The maximum takeoff weight for a LSA is 1320 pounds...that is without
floats of course.
No Skipper qualifies as a LSA.

Bob Moore