Scout

History
Through his thirty plus years of boat building experience, company President Steve Potts has learned what works and what doesn’t when it comes to boat design. When Steve set out to design his Scout boats, he already had a firm knowledge base from which to draw upon. He paid special attention to what designs didn’t work and why, valuable knowledge when you’re designing your own boats from scratch.

Construction
Scout Boats has a unique way of binding the deck to the hull. While most manufacturers lay the deck over the hull and then screw the two parts together, the flaw here is that in rough conditions, water is allowed to get between the joint and into the boat. By pioneering the industry’s first reverse-shoebox hull/deck design, Steve not only increased the overall strength of his hulls, but made them safer at the same time.

Another innovation that Scout helped to pioneer was the eradication of all wood in boat construction. Wood rots, it’s just that simple. No matter where wood is placed during the construction of a boat, eventually it will rot and the resulting damage can be beyond repair. That’s why, from the very beginning, Scout boats have had composite stringers and transoms. An additional innovation unique to Scout is the Air-Assist hull. Steve designed this unique feature specifically to combat the problem of static stability, common on small boats. With additional longitudinal buoyancy, the Air-Assist hull increases static floatation and decreases time to plane and also vastly improves overall handling characteristics. An important advantage of this design is increased fuel economy.

It takes a lot more money, engineering and effort to make things lighter, than heavier. Case in point; a competition bicycle. It’s one thing to own it, but another to operate it! Through engineering, precision design and superior materials, each Scout Boat model offers a quality of ride second to none, overall superior performance, with the benefit of tremendous fuel savings… in most cases, over 50% better than our competition… And today, that’s important! With Scout Boats, you’ll spend more of your time enjoying the water and less time at the dock!

Scout is always developing new and innovative construction methods. For instance, the engine mounting system on the 222 Sportfish and larger models, called the “Scout Strata-Mount” is a fully factory molded bracket with one very important feature: the two main longitudinal grid stringers pass through the transom and are integrated into the engine mount. This design allows the natural stresses of the engines to be spread out over the entire hull, increasing strength, durability and performance.

Models Sold
Center Consoles, Walkarounds, Bay-Boats, Fish & Ski 14-35 feet, outboard power