Scout Boats 670 LXS Reveal
It was an exciting evening at the Scout Boats’ new manufacturing facility in Summerville, South Carolina, this past Thursday, January 16th. In the new 35,000-square-foot building, Scout unveiled its greatest achievement to date—the largest outboard-powered sport yacht ever built—Project Everest, the 670 LXS.
With great fanfare and Hollywood-style theatrics, Steve Potts, CEO and founder of Scout Boats, realized the ultimate in boatbuilding achievement when the curtain dropped. Witnessed by the all those involved from South Carolina’s lieutenant governor to the mayor to the designers, equipment partners, craftsmen, and the press to spread the word, the Scout 670 is the culmination of a vision that started to become a reality in 2021.
“We started Project Everest, basically on the heels of success of the fifty-three. It’s a tremendous investment to do what we’ve done, not only in the design and engineering of the boat, but also the infrastructure that goes around building the boat and bringing it to a product that we can now sell,” says Dave Wallace, president of Scout Boats. “Project Everest means a tremendous amount to me, personally. I’ve been with Scout now for twenty-six years, and to be involved in a company that has a vision to do what we’ve done means the world to me. The 670 is for the customer that expects everything. Our company has always tried to develop something that didn’t exist.”
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Pulling expertise from the world-renowned superyacht design studio of Harrison Eidsgaard, the largest outboard-powered yacht features luxurious appointments with the ability to entertain on the sandbar or out on the fishing grounds. Yes, that means a fishing model, the 670 LXF, is in the works.
A boat this size has all the social areas necessary for entertaining: the bow, with its expansive seating and sunbathing lounges, to port and starboard hydraulic balconies that fold down to create a massive aft deck area with transom and mezzanine-style seating that has a grill on one side and a refrigerator on the other. The interior galley and dining area is a step below the helm and companion seats. Beyond the dual console helm, with MFDs on both sides, a few steps down lead to an airy atrium off which three staterooms can accommodate family and crew in roomy comfort.
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“Here at Scout, we do things a little bit differently. We’re a design-driven company, so if you can come up with an idea and we can figure out a way to build it, we’ll usually go ahead and do that,” says Jeff Summers, senior designer at Scout Boats. “What it meant for me as the senior designer here was thinking about a different level of Scout from the success we had on the fifty-three. When we first started building the project, we got a lot of feedback of, ‘Why would you build a boat sixty-seven feet with outboards?’ And one of the responses to that is because we could, and we wanted to, when we were driven to create a product that didn’t exist, like Steve always mentions. We saw an opportunity in the market the way the trend was going. You know, it’s been a learning process for us on a boat this size because it is a little bit different from what we’re used to. We did a lot of things we’ve never done before, and we spent a lot of time making sure we’ve done it the right way. We designed it for the Scout customer: someone who enjoys a beautiful boat, someone who wants to fish and fish hard when they feel like they want to, but also someone who wants to enjoy and pull up on a sandbar, someone who can run the boat in beautiful weather, but if they get stuck in rough conditions, they’re going to be comfortable doing it.”
“We started Project Everest, and it was just a design on the napkin,” says Potts. “The 670 is a unique boat. There’s nothing else like it that I’m aware of in the world. We coined the phrase expect everything. It’s a boat that can do a wide variety of things, from going on a beach to a gathering place to high performance. …The versatility of the 670 is second to no other boat that’s in the market, and that’s what sets it apart.”
You could see the sense of pride in all those that evening associated with building the 670. It’s an incredible yacht, and I can’t wait to get out and take her through the paces, hopefully at the Palm Beach International Boat Show in March. Head to scoutboats.com to see more.
By Steve Davis
SCOUT 670 LXS Photos
SCOUT 670 LXS SPECIFICATIONS:
LOA: 66’ 9”
Beam: 16’ 2”
Draft: 3’ 4” approx.
Fuel/Water: 184/118 U.S. gals.
Power: 5x Mercury V12 600-hp outboards
Top/Fast Cruise Speed: 60/40 mph projected
Range @ Cruise: 450 miles
Contact: scoutboats.com
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