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| V-bottom Not flat athwartships. In a flat bottom boat the chines meet the keel at the bottom of the stem. In a vee bottom boat, the keel fastens to the bottom of the stem and chines at a point above this junction, the higher, the more the vee. A "flat bottom" ski boat has a vee bottom, the bottom is flat at the transom. (See Deep Vee, Bottom Shape.) |