The vessel is a flat-bottomed boat with a hard chine, pointed bow and a similar stern.
In sections the shape is similar to a hard chine with a distinct change of angle at the waterline and slack bilges.
She is somewhat unusual in having a "soft" chine rather than a "hard", sharply angled chine.
The first hulls to start incorporating hard chines were probably shallow draft cargo carrying vessels used on rivers and in canals.
The punt is one of the older and simplest hard chine small boats.
His designs used thin plywood,hard chines,a vertical stem and stern and light displacement.
The craft design features hard chines.
The hull is wooden and V-shaped, with a hard chine and a square stern.
Kayaks can have hard or soft chines which require different types of handling.
Those boats were built with hard chines and low gunwales to provide a stable platform from which to clam from.