It's neither. In the Mid-Atlantic (New Jersey and the Chesapeake Bay) that would be a ducking skiff - a narrow, flat bottomed boat with lots of rocker. It is paddled, rather than rowed, because of its narrowness, but it's still a skiff. They've been around a long time, my father taught me to build one back in the 1970s - like this one out of plywood, but he said they used to be made out of 1/2 inch white pine.
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It's neither. In the Mid-Atlantic (New Jersey and the Chesapeake Bay) that would be a ducking skiff - a narrow, flat bottomed boat with lots of rocker. It is paddled, rather than rowed, because of its narrowness, but it's still a skiff. They've been around a long time, my father taught me to build one back in the 1970s - like this one out of plywood, but he said they used to be made out of 1/2 inch white pine.