[ Maglor looks very thoughtful at that - he was the artist of the family, but Curufin is actually an architect and smith, not a boat-builder, by trade. To be Noldor is to make, and to learn, and Maglor had a thoroughly Noldorin education, even if he decided to throw it all aside for music later. Some things stick. ]

Metal... that is a thought. It would need to be very thin, and the size... I think our normal shapes for boats would not work. Not enough displacement of the hulls for them to float. Perhaps a flat bottom, the way the Men do it might work better, with metal. What is a sub?