The Vice President of the United States is the ex officio President of the Senate, with authority to preside over the Senate's sessions, although he can vote only to break a tie. For decades the task of presiding over Senate sessions was one of the vice president's principal duties.
However, because they ride atop the water, rather than cutting through it as other hulls do, flat-bottom boats are usually limited in the size of their motors. The flat surface may also give a spine-jarring ride in anything less than calm weather.
The Hull. Webster's defines the hull of a vessel as, the frame or body of a ship or boat exclusive of masts, yards, sails, and rigging.. More directly, it's the part that floats. Hulls can be made of wood, fiberglass, steel, aluminum, even concrete. They may be single hulls, called monohulls, or multi-hulls.