Boat designs for dinghies and canoes for rowing, sailing, paddling and outboard.
The Classic Canoe Several thousand years ago somebody dragged a Cedar tree out of the forest and proceeded to dig the wood out of it to make it hollow in the middle. He created the first dug out canoe. Canoe hulls were manufactured in this fashion for many thousands of years and were improved upon as all things will be as time goes by. The shape of the hull however stayed the same symmetrical shape of the hollowed out log, once again with no regard to hydrodynamics. The shape of a tree trunk became the traditional shape for even modern canoes of aluminum and plastic, simply because that shape had been used for eons.