2020 Scarab 285 Review

Scarab hits a homer with its 285. First, the Rotax propulsion gives an exciting speed to this 28-footer. With the surf package, it will make a wake riders will enjoy; third, it's styled in a crisp manner that borrows techy brand new automobiles.

The techiest component is that the touchscreen display oriented at a position like an Audi Q7. You are given the skier profile webpage by one tap. Another gives you a visual image of fuel you are able to tailor the ride to get optimum mileage, burn. Yet another and another provides cruise control desensitizes the throttle for easier docking. Add audio control and other cool features, and this display sets the tone for a thrilling skipper experience. Styling of the dash and console is trimmed on items like grab handles, switch panels, a doorway and more. Even the passenger has a touchscreen panel that provides control.

Seatbacks for partner and your captain reverse forward to get an reclining place to join seating interrupted only by a starboard-side transom walk through. Front seat bolsters turn up for a better perspective. The stage is wide and low to the water toward the edge with jets -- maybe not props -- stretching thanks to the position of the engines heavy in the hull. Lockers that are rope keep until everything can be hung to dry in vent moist gear secure.

It might be the bow seating that gives its features to the 285. The seating is broad with forward-facing lounges that join beam-to-beam seating, that faces aft.

A filler cushion or cocktail table adds choices. The key to the seating, however, is the entrance to the head . Rather than swinging the toward the front passenger seat, that side of the console has been fixed the vent seat of the console increases just like a sports car's gull-wing door to give generous entry to a head compartment.

If it didn't have performance to match, all this would not matter a bit. And it surely did.

High Points:

⋅A surf bundle around the 285 contains ballast and Scarab's Surf Stream Wake Enhancement to form the waves.

⋅The touchscreen systems panel efficiently serves up management of skier profiles, docking style, cruise control and sound systems amongst others.

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