The Edison transom. Steven Shovoly, a former engineer at Intel, was always enamored with the wooden boats of a bygone era, in particular, the great American runabouts by Chris Craft, Hacker Craft, Garwood, and the like. In 2007 he was inspired to build a solid plank mahogany, zero emission, plug-in electric barrel back runabout, fashioned after those boats of the early 1940s. He christened her Edison.