Aluminum is the ideal boatbuilding material - light, economical, maintenance-free and easy to work with.This second edition offers you everything amateurs and small-scale professionals need to know to successfully build aluminum boats of almost any size or type. Covers basic aluminum fabrication, welding, fitting-out, lofting and painting.

Author Stephen Pollard has constructed 12 large sailing yachts, some well-known ocean racers, large power boats and hundreds of small, welded aluminum workboats and pleasure boats. He has also developed many of the techniques used in modern welded aluminum boat manufacturing. (Published by McGraw Hill, 320 pages)