I looked at a lot of possible midsection shapes.  Flat-bottomed and multi-chined were options, but came with various drawbacks I couldn't overcome.  Ultimately, a single consideration informed the design brief:  the desire for a relatively fine bow at the waterline for light air performance when sailing in motorboat chop.  The only way to get that in a stitch-and-glue hull was with a V-bottom, and everything else in the hull shape flowed from there.  The hull is so shallow that there isn't much of a wetted surface disadvantage compared to the other options, and it can't hurt that it's an easy shape to build.  Certainly I could have done something more complicated, but a guiding principal was, "I shall not be ashamed of PocketShip's plywoodness."