Originally Posted by Will_R
Originally Posted by mbounds
Originally Posted by grob
It could also be to add stiffness locally, or just styling.

Gareth


DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!


Since anything on the hull that is not smooth is going to increase drag, why would to do something to stiffen the hull externally when you could do it w/o the penalty internally?


I think that he meant the winning answer was just styling (he highlighted that part in bold)