Those Princess Auto cu-al cables are always coming on sale for the various sizes. If no hurry just wait :) We have a store nearby so it is easy to go and get stuff. Just don't buy any of their solar! Highway robbery! Same thing at Can Tire for their solar. People buy that too, the poor saps :( $4 or $5/watt !!!
I have cut up a #2 cu-al set and found the strands are zillions of fine silky threads each of which is cu over al. Amazing how they would have to make one! Anyway, very flexible like welding wire but you have to get serious adding a lug terminal on all those silky strands so it stays on. Also advertised as staying flexible in the cold, which does not apply here of course, but would in Ontar-iar-io.
I got these a couple years ago for about ISTR $30 on sale
http://www.princessauto.com/pal/en/Battery/25-ft-1-Gauge-Booster-Cables/8212573.pshown here on two 100s in parallel
