An outboard engine attaches to the stern of a boat in an area called the transom.

Hull and stern of a boat. The Hull is the body of the boat in this case its 18 steel. A boat has a lot of shear when theres a lot of curve. Taking the helm means that you are in charge of driving the boat.

The boat has a 237-horsepower gasoline inboard engine Boats may be called inboards whether they have a straight shaft running through the hull such as the Marlow Pilot 34 a stern-drive going through the transom like the Monterey 218SS or pod drives going through the bottom of the boat as in the case of the Sea Ray L590. Whether your boat has a large engine or a small one one bunk or a dozen cabins a gourmet galley or a one-burner stove there is nothingabsolutely nothingthat will make as much difference to your boating pleasure as the design of your hull. Vessels fitted with both a stern and bow thruster has total 360 directional maneuverability.

A boat thruster is a device that moves the boat in a sideways direction. Combine the bow of a displacement hull with the stern of a planing hull and you get a semi-displacement hull. While Steps in boat hulls date back to WWl they have made a recent comeback.

The Shear is the swooping curve of the hull from the bow front to the stern back. A flat shear has little curve. At the upper edges of the boats hull are the gunwales.

Stations define the shape of a hull section at any point from bow to stern. The design goal of a semi-displacement hull is to keep the boats weight supported by buoyancy at slower speeds but allow it to exceed the hull speed of a similarly sized displacement vessel. The bow is simply the most forward part of a sailboat and thus the very front of the hull.

Since the loaf of bread has the same section shape from bow to stern all the cuts through the bread will be the same shape. Now we got onto an exciting part the stem. Transom mount engines attach onto the boat transom with clamps.