Boatbuilding with Aluminium

By Stephen F. Pollard

Aluminum may be the best possible boatbuilding material: it's economical, lightweight, maintenance-free, nearly impervious to corrosion, less easily damaged, and more easily repaired than any other material used for building boats. It can be cut and worked with conventional woodworking tools, and, using the author's special techniques, can be welded with readily available equipment using standard household current. Only a lack of information has kept aluminum from becoming the backyard boatbuilder's material of choice. In Boatbuilding with Aluminum, readers learn aluminum fabrication, welding, and lofting through the construction of a 20-foot McKenzie River drift boat. More advanced aluminum-forming techniques and large-yacht construction are covered in detail, using specific examples, to enable readers to build aluminum boats of any size. And they will learn from a master of the craft. Stephen Pollard has built hundreds of aluminum boats--from large ocean racers to water-jet river boats--and has pioneered many of the techniques used in modern welded aluminum boat manufacturing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877423776
• ISBN13: 9780877423775
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: International Marine Publishing
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Beginer baot builder

This book is full of facts. It also has good information for a beginer. I have learned a lot of useful information. this book is a great starting point for anyone that wants to build a alumanum boat. Have fun with it. I am.

Boatbuilding With Aluminum

This book is well written and informative. The information can be technical, so it is not for the casual reader. However, if you want to build an aluminum boat (or purchase one and understand the build process), you should read this book.

Boat Building Aluminium Pollard

Excellent book very helpful no obvious bias. Top section on the actual fabrication sequence.

Excellent reference for owner-builder

Steve Pollard does an excellent job of explaining how and why construction practices are recommended. And he writes with clarity and brevity.

Small shop boat building

This is the only book of it's kind that was actually written by a hands on boat builder. The easy to follow book is a must for the novice aluminum boat builder.