Looking for some tips for a glass bottom boat design

The "bottom" of a boat extends from the horizontal keel to the waterline. There may therefore be a vertical or nearly vertical "window" in the "bottom" of a boat.

 

Not on a flat bottom boat though.

 

Exactly the same applies for a flat bottom boat, of course. Why not?, explain me a reason.
The flat bottom boat can also have a vertical or almost vertical "bottom".

 

On a flat bottom boat the bottom is horizontal. The only condition when the bottom is vertical, is when the boat capsized.

 

OK.
@gonzo, google "flat bottom boat" and you'll see that you're wrong.
I don't know what else I could explain to you, I give up.

 

On the shallow flat bottom boats we saw in Florida, draft being that shallow and form of vertical windows would be to short for humans to utilize them. Could have flat bottom with significantly more draft and have glass below the waterline line but it would negate the shallow draft aspect...

 

Flat bottom hull, as long as I know, doesn't mean horizontal bottom. But, of course, a low shallow boat cannot have vertical windows below waterline. I think we both are talking about same thing.

 

Then your definition of hull "bottom" is very different from any Classification or regulatory body that defines bottom and side, as different:

Your preferred prescriptive set of rules of chose, ISO:


Or Say Class:


It is self evident what/where the bottom and side of a hull is...one does not need any rules for this definition.
But presented to you, for your edification.

 

So, if a flat bottom boat has rocker is it no longer a flat bottom boat?
Terminology perhaps, confusing for sure.

 

Rocker is a longitudinal geometry direction definition.
Bottom and side is a transverse geometry definition.

Literally two different planes.

 

Yes, I realize that but it doesn't answer my question.
And, perhaps, that is where the confusion exists.

 

Well, it does, unless you're unaware that they are different geometric part definitions of a vessel's hull.

 

Not helpful in regards to this thread.
Disregard my last.

 

Thanks Ad Hoc, your comments are always clarifying.
By the way, I found, in another of my favourite CS, the following definition of bottom shell.

Regardless of what each regulatory body considers as bottom or side, there are several ideas that some commentators in this thread are not very clear about:
- plexiglass cannot be used
- passengers cannot step on the windows and solutions must be established so that this does not happen.
- the windows must be located in a perfectly flat area of the hull.
- the windows can be horizontal or inclined, there are no restrictions on this.
- the structure of the hull must be re-studied to properly accommodate these windows.
- some regulations limit the maximum dimensions of these openings in the hull.
- the stability after a damage in the window compartments must be studied.
Any other clarification from you will be, as always, very enlightening.
This is not a simple construction and irresponsible ideas or comments should not be launched into it, as they can be very dangerous.

 

If the bottom is a straight horizontal line on the sections view, it is a flat bottom. Another way to look at it is that the bottom has a continuous frame that is straight.