The flat-bottomed hull made these craft extremely versatile and economical.

Conversely, flat-bottomed hulls are easy to turn, but harder to direct in a constant direction.

Dark water slapped against the flat-bottomed hull.

Smith had the two vessels built with tapered, flat-bottomed hulls, so that they could go into shallow waters.

The long and straight flat-bottomed hull.

The pontoon is a catamaran having rectangular shaped, flat-bottomed hulls.

The pontoons are catamarans with rectangular shaped twin flat-bottomed hulls.

Thus, steering is very important, particularly because canoes have flat-bottomed hulls and are very responsive to turning actions.

Philopator was properly built, with a kelson, and bilges, and a flat-bottomed hull.

A flat-bottomed hull will have high initial stability, while a rounded or V-shaped hull will have high final stability.

Certainly, the body - a chunky, flat-bottomed hull with a Jeep 4x4 chassis bolted inside - had more holes than a decrepit knitted sweater when work began.

They stood side by side at the steering console with legs braced in a charioteer's pose, knees bent to absorb the shock of the flat-bottomed hull slapping the waves.

'would outsail anything afloat' ... "He incorporated John W. Griffiths' ideas concerning a sharp concave bow with his own ideas of a fuller flat-bottomed hull."

Rather than the deep, asymmetric hull of a traditional proa, Munroe created flat-bottomed hulls (similar to the fisolera referred to by Pigafetta), with keels or centerboards for lateral resistance.

The Northern engineer James Eads had started with the flat-bottomed hulls of big Mississippi steamers, then plated them over with a slab-sided iron casemate sloped at forty-five degrees.

Junks featured a square-ended bow and stern, a flat-bottomed hull or carvel-shaped hull with no keel or sternpost, and solid transverse bulkheads in the place of structural ribs found in Western vessels.

It was shown that a V-shaped hull protects better than a flat-bottomed hull because it directs a blast wave to flow around the vehicle instead of imparting most of the blast energy directly to the vehicle.

In the late eighteenth century, a number of wooden-hulled sailing colliers gained fame after being adapted for use in voyages of exploration in the South Pacific, for which their flat-bottomed hulls and sturdy construction made them well-suited.

As a one-person personal water craft with a motorcycle-like ride that let riders enjoy sharply banked turns, tailstands, combined with its powerful engine, semi flat-bottomed hull, and chrome-alloy piston rings, this is a model that still has many devoted fans today.

Flat-bottomed hull - The flat-bottomed hull has advantages, such as the ability to travel in shallower water and being cheap and easy to build, though it is much less stable in rough waters than other hull types.