Design
Sea Scout
Designed by William D. Jackson
A 13 ft 6 in inboard runabout from the Craft Print series, project number 138, drawn by the naval architect William D. Jackson and published in Science and Mechanics magazine in the 1950s. Jackson drew a long run of these magazine boats, built plywood over a stick frame, at a time when a family could buy a set of plans across a newsagent counter for pocket money and build the boat in a garage over a winter.
A period design rather than a current one: the plans are found second hand or through the people who reproduce the old Craft Prints, so there is no shop to link to. No beam is recorded here because the sources that list the project give the length and not the rest, and a guessed beam is worse than a blank one. Anybody building her today is likely adapting her, for an outboard or for electric power, as the first log on this page does.
What building a Sea Scout actually takes
Medians from the build logs kept on this site, not the designer’s estimate.
Those medians firm up as more people log this boat.
Builds of this boat
Boats like this one
Same type, closest in length.
| Design | Plans from | LOA | Logs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fast Skiff 14 Low Sheer | Bateau | 13′ 6″ (4.12 m) | 0 |
| Amp Eater | Glen-L Marine | 13′ 4″ (4.06 m) | 0 |
| Candlefish 13 | Devlin | 13′ 4″ (4.06 m) | 0 |
| 14' Garvey Jolle | Boatkits | 4.2 m (13′ 9″) | 0 |
| Candlefish 13 | Chesapeake Light Craft | 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) | 0 |
| Class CD | Glen-L Marine | 13′ 2″ (4.01 m) | 0 |