Scow schooners had a broad, shallow hull, and used centerboards, bilgeboards or leeboards rather than a deep keel.
It's just a matter of time before the original one-tree canoe becomes the keel, and planks are used to make a much wider, shallower hull.
The hard usage they were subjected to and inherent flexibility of their shallow wooden hulls meant that relatively few of them had careers longer than a decade.
Built on a shallow hull, these dredges did not need a lot of water to operate, as they moved their pond of water with them.
It was of all-metal construction, with a parasol wing that was attached by struts to a wide, shallow hull.
Like the smaller felucca, the dahabiyya boasts a triangular sail and shallow hull, allowing for private island moorings away from the crowds.
Many of his early designs were comparatively skiff-like in appearance, with shallow hulls, wide sterns and light displacement.
Their shallow hulls mean that they can get through reefs where deeper-hulled sea-going ships usually cannot.
Johnny Reb sat low in the small boat, the motor idling the waves slapping the sides of the shallow hull in the darkness.
Her shallow wooden hull was long and beamy, measuring 270 feet by forty-four.