"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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Pollard has developed some techniques for small-scale building of
aluminum boats, but they tend to be full of stringers or frames.
Unless you stretch it into compound curves, it drums and flops around,
without the reinforcement.

I can't think of many places where I'd prefer it to modern wood and
epoxy techniques for a small, one-off boat. But then, I haven't tried.
My experience in working with sheet aluminum for complex shapes has
not been happy. d8-)
Ed Huntress

It also doesn't take well to external impacts. I wish I had taken videos of
white-water rapids runners jumping in their beached aluminum canoes to pop
out the dents.

jsw