Scout's 67 LX Series — one 66'9" carbon-epoxy hull in two configurations, the 670 LXF with an upper-station flybridge and the 670 LXS without
You want to fish sixty miles out, sleep six people aboard and still be running outboards you can have swapped in a week. That is the brief Scout wrote for the 67 LX Series, and the honest way to describe it is one boat sold two ways.
The 670 LXF and the 670 LXS are the same 66'9" hull on a 16'2" beam — 19'6" across with the cockpit beach doors folded down — carrying 1,500 gallons of gasoline, 184 gallons of diesel for a 24 kW generator, 118 gallons of fresh water and three staterooms. Both were drawn in partnership with the superyacht studio Harrison Eidsgaard. Both are built the way Scout builds its most expensive hulls and then further: the series flyer specifies a carbon-fiber epoxy-infused hull, carbon and fiberglass infused stringers and deck, and a carbon-fiber epoxy-infused hardtop frame support. Both take four or five Mercury 600 hp V12 outboards, up to 3,000 horsepower.
What separates them is a single line on Scout's own order sheet, filed under Model Selection: Sport Version — No Upper Station, or Fishing Version — Includes Flybridge. The 670 LXF is the fishing version, and Scout's page for it says so in as many words — the ultimate fishing version within the 67 LX Series, complete with an upper station flybridge. The 670 LXS is the sport version, with no upper station. Everything else — hull, accommodation, systems, engine choices — comes from the same book. Scout calls each of them "our all-new premier flagship", so neither outranks the other in Scout's own literature.
The speed, cruise and range figures for both boats are the builder's own approximations — quoted below with the source named — so read them as planning figures and let a sea trial with your intended engine count do the verifying.
Every Scout Boats LX model we review in depth, in the order owners step up through the series.
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66'9" and 1,500 gallons: quad Mercury 600 V12s standard, quint optional, flybridge included.
66'9" on a 16'2" beam, 1,500 gal, three staterooms: the Sport 670, single helm, no upper station.
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The 670 LXF at 66'9" is the fishing configuration, and the flybridge is the whole of the decision. Scout's own page calls it the ultimate fishing version within the 67 LX Series, complete with an upper station flybridge for the discerning offshore fisherman, and the order sheet lists that upper station as the thing you are choosing rather than a trim level. It brings its own dependencies — the twin electric 24-volt teaser reel setup is offered only with the flybridge — and it sits above a cockpit that can be ordered two ways: the standard 20/60/20 transom with port and starboard baitwells around a centre couch, or the sportfish 30/40/30 transom with large pressurised baitwells, an integrated five-tube tuna tube system and full-width bolsters with walk-through gates, which is the transom Scout requires if you want the fighting chair. Two 60-gallon in-floor fish boxes, 30-gallon baitwells port and starboard, twelve gunnel rod holders and nine in the transom are standard either way. Scout's page figures: approximately 60 mph top, an approximate 40 mph fast cruise and approximately 500 miles of range on four or five Mercury 600s.
The 670 LXS at 66'9" is the same hull with the upper station deleted — Sport Version, No Upper Station, on that same sheet. Scout calls it the Luxury Sport Model, and it is the version the 67 LX Series flyer is written around. Nothing below deck changes: a master stateroom with a hydraulically actuated bed over storage, magnetic bedside charging and an en-suite route to the day head; an aft VIP with a lockable door; a crew stateroom with twin berths; a lower salon with a 7'2" couch and a Vitrifrigo drawer refrigerator-freezer; and at least 6'7" of standing room everywhere, 7' in the upper atrium. Beam-width stability comes with a Seakeeper 14 as standard, with an 18 on the options list. Scout's series flyer projects a top speed in the upper 50s and approximately 450 miles of range; the model page quotes approximately 60 mph and 500 miles. Both are the builder's estimates — plan off the conservative pair.
Two boats, one hull, and the only decision Scout actually asks you to make is whether you want the flybridge. Start there and let the rest follow, because it is not a small thing. An upper station on a 67-foot outboard boat changes where you fish from, where you dock from, what you can see, and what the boat is carrying up high. Ask to stand on one before you order it, and ask to stand on the boat without it the same day.
What I will not let slide is the numbers. On these two boats every figure comes with the word approximately attached — approximately 60 mph, approximately 40 mph fast cruise, approximately 500 miles on the model pages, with the flyer projecting upper 50s and 450. On a boat carrying 1,500 gallons and up to five 600-horsepower engines, the gap between 450 and 500 miles is a real afternoon. Get a sea trial with your engine count, and do not let a broker quote you either figure as tested.
The second thing is the diesel. This is an outboard boat with 184 gallons of diesel aboard to feed a 24 kW generator running 48,000 BTU of air conditioning across two variable-speed chillers. Scout has spent the last few years going the other way on its 37-to-43-footers — the [377 LXF](/scout/377-lxf), the [400 LXF Li-Ion](/scout/400-lxf-li-ion) and the [435 LXF Li-Ion](/scout/435-lxf-li-ion) all run their air conditioning off lithium with no genset aboard. At 67 feet it turns back, and it should: three staterooms and a full hotel load is not a day-boat problem. Just be clear that you are buying two fuel systems, two fill points and a genset service schedule along with the boat.
And a small one worth catching before you order the lift and the slip: the model pages say 41 inches of draft and the series flyer says 37, so settle the draft — and the rigged weight for your engine count — in writing on your build sheet.
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It is thirteen feet longer and a different category of boat. The 530 LXF is 53'5" on a 14'8" beam with 875 gallons, two cabins and up to five outboards. The 67 LX Series is 66'9" on a 16'2" beam — 19'6" with the cockpit beach doors folded down — carrying 1,500 gallons of gasoline, three staterooms, a 24 kW diesel generator on its own 184-gallon tank, 48,000 BTU of air conditioning across two chillers and a Seakeeper 14 as standard.
One more difference to carry into the decision: the LXF line's performance figures come from tested bulletins, package by package, with rpm, gallons per hour, mpg and the test conditions on the sheet, while every speed and range figure for the 670 LXF and 670 LXS is the builder's own approximation — the earlier series flyer's figures are lower again and labelled as projections. At this size, plan on a sea trial with your intended engine count and get the rigged weight in writing.
Carbon fiber, and further through the boat than anywhere below it in the range. The 67 LX Series equipment list specifies a carbon-fiber epoxy-infused hull, carbon-fiber and fiberglass infused stringers, a carbon-fiber and fiberglass infused deck, and a carbon-fiber epoxy-infused hardtop frame support. Both model pages carry the same one-line summary of it — built with carbon fiber and E-glass.
That is the epoxy-infusion process Scout applies from 33 feet up, using the carbon hybrid it introduces at 37 feet on the 377 LXF and above, extended past the hull the way it already is on the 530 LXF. One thing to settle with a dealer: get the rigged weight for your configuration in writing before you size a lift or a slip.
Two boats on one hull: the 670 LXF and the 670 LXS, both 66'9" on a 16'2" beam. Scout files them under LX Series on its own site, separately from the LXF center consoles that top out at the 530 LXF at 53'5". Both were drawn in partnership with the superyacht design studio Harrison Eidsgaard, both carry 1,500 gallons of gasoline, 184 gallons of diesel, 118 gallons of fresh water and three staterooms, and both take four or five Mercury 600 hp V12 outboards to a 3,000 horsepower ceiling.
What distinguishes them is a single line on Scout's equipment list, under a heading it calls Model Selection: Fishing Version, includes flybridge, or Sport Version, no upper station. The LXF is the fishing version with the upper-station flybridge; the LXS is the sport version without it. Scout describes each of them as its premier flagship, so neither one outranks the other in its own literature.
Tell us how you plan to use the boat — guests, range, crew or no crew — and we'll give you the straight story on where in the LX series you belong, new or brokerage.
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