Phantom Electric Boats

Silent on the water.

Why Electric River Jet Boats?

Why Electric River Jet Boats Make Sense Here First

Northern Alberta is an unusually good place to build electric river jet boats, and not for the reason people assume. It is not about emissions targets. It is that the boating here is shallow, technical and close to home — the exact profile an electric driveline handles better than a combustion one. Runs are measured in tens of miles, not hundreds. The water worth going up is inches deep. The launch is often a gravel approach off a section road rather than a marina. And the boat spends most of its life on a trailer in a yard that already has 240-volt power at the back of it.

A jet drive was already the right answer for that water. No propeller and no lower unit means a hull that runs where nothing else does, with nothing hanging underneath to sacrifice to a shale ledge. Electrifying that drive adds instant torque off the bottom — on plane in a boat length instead of three — and takes engine noise out of the equation entirely.

What the Silence Actually Buys You

The quiet is the part nobody believes until they are standing in the boat. On a combustion river boat the engine is a participant in your whole day: you shout over it, you smell it, you plan around where you can sit and idle it. Take it away and the day changes shape. You can talk at cruise. You can hear an animal on the bank before it hears you. You can leave a gravel bar at six in the morning without waking the camp beside you, and you can run water where noise has already started closing access. Owners tell us the silence is what sells the boat. The torque is what keeps them grinning.

Electric River Jet Boats Built Here, Not Assembled From a Catalogue

Every Phantom is engineered as one integrated system. The battery, the motor, the jet drive, the thermal loop, the display and the control software are specified by the same people in the same shop — which is why the boat behaves like one machine instead of a set of components that happen to share a hull. We build them here, we test them on the Wapiti and the Smoky, and when something does not survive breakup silt or a forty-below winter we change it and build the next one better.

Every hull is engineered against Transport Canada Small Vessel Regulations and ABYC E-11 and TE-4 standards for marine electrical systems and electric propulsion.