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.
1 Hull Transom-The surface that forms the stern (back) of the vessel. 2  Hull Chine-A sharp (or sharper) angle on the hull, this is more pronounced in planing hulls, power boats, where a hard chine is a sharp angle and a soft chine a smoother angle.3  A barge has a hard chine as it has vertical sides.ou can think of this hull as a hybrid of the flat and round bottom hulls. This is generally associated with a semi-Displacement vessel that can, at low speeds push though the water relatively efficiently like a round bottom hull but it can also plain to a certain extent, but not at speeds of a flat bottom hull.