"Gordon" ) writes:
Basically, a flat bottom boat is always on a plane and can exceed "hull"
speed easily because of that.

Shallow draft light displacement boats don't have much displaced water to
push aside. It doesn't take a lot of power to push them beyond "hull"
speed without actually planing. Canoes and kayaks are like that, and
shallow draft skiffs. Dorys have narrow bottoms and tend to sit too low in
the water to be really shallow draft. It doesn't take much to lift a
light displacement, shallow draft, wide bottom skiff or garvey onto a plane.

As for ride, rough. Will pound at any kind of speed but plenty seaworthy
(most not good in a following sea) as evidenced by all the dories out there.
Gordon

Its the narrow bottom, deeper draft, and high sides which make the banks
style dory more seaworthy. John Gardiner's "Dory Book" shows the 19 ft
inboard St Pierre fishing dory from the French islands in the Gulf of St
Lawrence. I think he wrote that the French government documented the plan
and made it avaiable cheap to the fishermen there.


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