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.
Most deck boats, though, are still built on some variation of the tri-hull plan with more width and depth farther forward. That's the key to a desirable deck boat: more space where it counts â up top. However, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who'll claim a tri-hull cuts waves as smoothly as does a V-hull.