>>60673I'm just guessing that you live in a state or country with very little interest in canoeing. In Missouri, where I'm from, so many people go on float trips on our waterways in the summer that Saturdays on some rivers literally have traffic jams of canoes. Most are rentals because renting is cheap as can be, an aluminum canoes are known for being the cheapest. I admit I was pulling that <$50 number out of my ass (looking on Craigslist for the area, there's not a lot for sale at all, and nothing in that price range), but I have seen abandoned aluminum canoes many times on rivers, and my brother actually found a canoe and used it outside of his house, in the exact way I described in
>>60631>by living next to an otherwise small creek that floods sometimes.I would not spend $1400 on a metal canoe unless it was top-of-the line, lightweight, and offered distinct advantages over plastic. It's not good to generalize about materials without looking at the construction methods, but aluminum is just not my favorite material.
