If you are on a boat, that is the only boat you really care about, and you call it “the” boat. Whether skiff, seiner, or scow, it is “the” boat.

and the angle in the hull it forms in relation to the boat’s centerline. Its design can improve a boat’s ability to cut through waves and reduce the boat’s hull drag when underway. If the chine is ...

with the entire fuselage being a hull rather than mounting the aircraft on floats. The later Model F perfected the flying boat design with the incorporation of a V hull, supplanting the less efficient ...