The etek motor in the 15' electric launch is built by briggs & stratton for robots and small electric vehicles. it will handle 12-48 volts and will produce a maximum of 8 hp at about 4000 rpm. in the boat it is setup with a 4:1 reduction and running 24 volts rpm at the prop is about 450.. Records of the electric launch company (coll. 213), history of electric launch company. electric launch and navigation company, later known as electric launch company ("elco"), may be said to have been born at the. lo voltage electric boat plans for home boat building, electric launch for quiet family cruising.. The boats used a 4 hp electric motor driven by three banks of twenty- two batteries each. when the banks were depleted, a switch was made to a fresh bank allowing the launches to travel more than fifty miles. in five and one half months, the electric boats carried more than one million people over 200,000 miles..
Designs / plans; electric launch; the woodenboat forum is sponsored by woodenboat publications, publisher of woodenboat magazine. the forum is a free service, and much like the "free" content on public radio, we hope you will support woodenboat by subscribing to this fabulous magazine. under their plan section of special interest boats. Plans for models available so far include :-17'9" indian runner; 22' plywood ruby launch; 26' edwardian launch; contact us if you are interested in plans to make models of any of our other steam and electric launch designs. above is a model of our snow bunting launch made by frederick walker of canada.. There are now plans available for a scale model of the ruby 22 design for steam or electric power - go to www.makeamodelboat.com. 21' i jss el note, there are now 26' and 30' versions of this launch - go to the motor cruisers pages..
