The really "Old School" boating thread

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I've never seen it. Doesn't the rule book actually say the boats need to be flat bottoms Bob?

The word "flatbottom" is there, but its ambiguous. There are rules covering bottoms designs, and there are all flat by any means. Sanger ran runner bottoms for years which just called a flat keel boat in the rule book. But it can't be more than a 5/8 runner. In fact there are drawings showing how to measure strakes and the drawings are of V and gullwings.
The strakes are limited to 5/8 and the 20ft Rayson has 3/4 or larger.

The only classes that I know of where the bottom is clearly spelled out as flat and dimensions covering the whole boat, are cracker and Jersey Skiff,

All the others are about chines, keels and strakes.