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.
in many cases the design of the hull is controlled by use etc a narrow boat is going to have a flat or shallow v bottom to accommodate shallow draught a well designed yacht hull will be designed to give symmetrical wetted hull areas when heeled any deficiency in the performance of these common designs resulting from their limitations have to be accepted