Scout 330 LXF

The Scout 330 LXF is a 32'9" S-Class center console - Scout's own designation for its luxury models 33 feet and up. Scout builds it with epoxy infusion construction and what the company calls dual Scout Stepped Hull Technology, and gives it 24 degrees of transom deadrise on a 10'6" beam at 9,545 lbs dry without engines.

Standard equipment runs deeper than the class norm. The powder-coated patented T-top hardtop comes with a full windshield, six rocket launchers and LED rope lighting. The leaning post carries three tackle drawers to port, a trash unit to starboard, a 65-quart slide-out aft cooler, a sink, countertop, cutting board and a fiberglass cooler box, with twin bucket helm seats and an armrest box. Helm seats are heated as standard.

Inside the console is a berth with overhead lighting and an electric marine head plumbed to a 12-gallon holding tank with overboard discharge and dockside pump-out. Fuel capacity is 265 gallons and fresh water is 22 gallons. Options include a Zipwake interceptor system, a Seakeeper 2 DC version, outriggers, retractable rocket launchers and a built-in vessel sink. The 330 LXF is NMMA and Yacht Certified.

Scout rates the 330 LXF hull to a maximum of 900 hp (671 kW) and publishes a recommended cruising rating of 600 hp (448 kW). Tested performance bulletins are published for twin Yamaha 300s, twin Mercury 300s, twin Mercury 300s with Seakeeper, twin Mercury 400 V10s, and twin Yamaha 425s.

On the twin Mercury Verado 300 bulletin (20p Rev 4 props), Scout records a top speed of 55.2 mph at 6,000 rpm, 0-20 mph in 4.7 seconds, 0-30 mph in 7.6 seconds, and best fuel efficiency at 39.4 mph. Scout publishes an estimated range of 424 miles on that package and footnotes it as an estimate based on fuel consumption at optimal cruising speeds and sea conditions.

The hull runs 24 degrees of transom deadrise and Scout's dual stepped hull design, with the epoxy-infused laminate accounting for the 9,545 lb dry weight. Draft is approximately 31" and bridge clearance to the T-top is approximately 9'8". The highest-output package Scout publishes a bulletin for is twin Yamaha 425s; it does not publish tested figures at the top of the 900 hp rating.

Inside the console the 330 LXF carries a berth with overhead lighting, a starboard console storage closet, and an electric marine head with a 12-gallon holding tank, overboard discharge and dockside pump-out. A built-in vessel sink is on the options list.

The cockpit is organised around the leaning post, which is a working station in standard trim: three tackle drawers to port, a trash unit to starboard, a 65-quart slide-out aft cooler, a sink with countertop, a cutting board on the starboard countertop, a fiberglass cooler box, and twin bucket helm seats with an armrest box. Optional configurations swap the cutting board and sandwich refrigerator arrangement. Helm seats are heated as standard.

Overhead, the powder-coated patented T-top hardtop carries a full windshield, six rocket launchers and LED rope lighting. Forward bow seating has underside storage and a removable teak bow table is available. Fresh water capacity is 22 gallons.

The 330 LXF is the first boat in Scout's S-Class - the company's designation for its luxury models 33 feet and up - and it is the model where Scout's construction argument moves from equipment to laminate. Epoxy infusion and the dual stepped hull are the differentiators Scout leads with at this length, and they place the 330 LXF against the premium end of the 33-foot offshore center console market rather than the volume builders.

Buyers looking at this hull are generally comparing it with other 33-foot offshore center consoles from established American builders, weighing construction method, deadrise, fuel capacity and how complete the standard boat is before options.

Scout is family owned, builds in Summerville, South Carolina, and has been in business since 1989. The 330 LXF is NMMA and Yacht Certified.

The 330 LXF fits the owner-operator who runs offshore in genuine conditions and wants a construction story he can verify rather than take on faith. If you have run a conventional deep-vee 33-footer and want to know what an epoxy-infused, dual-stepped hull changes, this is the boat that answers it - and at 32'9" on a 10'6" beam it stays within reach of an owner who docks his own boat.

It is a strong fit if 24 degrees of deadrise matches your water, if a 265-gallon tank covers the runs you make, and if you value a standard-equipment list that already includes a full-windshield hardtop, heated helm seats and a properly plumbed electric head.

It is the wrong boat if your home channel will not take 31 inches at low tide, or if you need a genuine weekender - 22 gallons of fresh water and a console berth are honest about their limits. Buyers who do not need the S-Class laminate or the sharper entry should look at the 305 LXF, which does much of the same job in a smaller, lighter package.