Talk:Flats boat

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Attempt at creating requested article for Flats Boats. My knowledge is primarily from warm water fishing and may show. Feel free to edit or request edit/citations. I suggest it be named singular as "Flats boat" vs plural and redirect added if appropriate. Feedback welcome. Mlepisto (talk) 03:45, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction of unfamiliar, unexplained terms

Article mentions: deadrise, micro-skiff, tunnel vee: please define these terms in the article to ensure reader comprehension.--Quisqualis (talk) 22:39, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Quisqualis I have updated it. Please let me know if that helps. Thank you. Mlepisto (talk) 02:42, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but I find your explanations rather unclear. I'm not a boater. Regarding deadrise, is a "small angle" deadrise of 45 degrees found on a flats boat? That is a small angle. Or did you mean a low angle, closer to 180 degrees?--Quisqualis (talk) 06:10, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

perhaps I'm not the best to explain this without some visual reference... a boat with a flat bottom is 0 degrees deadrise. So as the V becomes deeper like the vee character I just typed, the measured angle increases. The angle is measured from a flat plane at the bottom to the angle of one side of the V. So a flat bottom boat is zero, and there are various different designs of other boats where they may be small deadrise at say 10degrees (just picking a number) to 24 or 25 degrees which is considered a deep vee with a larger deadrise more typical of offshore recreational fishing boats. I don't know much about other boat, but I would say most recreational boats are in the range of 0 to 25 degrees. Does that help? Mlepisto (talk) 10:28, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]