About Scout

Scout is a French-built Garcia Exploration 45 monohull yacht. She splashed in September 2021 and is hull number 31 of this particular Garcia model:

Scout - fresh out of the boat yard.

At the Annapolis Boat Show, the Learning The Lines team did a walkthrough of Scout herself. It’s a pretty detailed tour of our beautiful home!

Scout also features in the early part of this Sailing Fair Isle video from the same show:

From a few years back, the one and only Pete Goss does a great walkthrough of his own Exploration 45 in this video:

Here’s some preliminary information about Scout’s configuration:

• 50ft length overall
• An aluminium hull
• A centreboard keel allowing for shallow water access and drying out
• Twin helms
• Twin rudders
• Accommodation for up to seven people, with two cabins, one sea berth and a convertible saloon table
• Two heads (bathrooms)
• A chain locker centred at the mast foot
• A deck saloon with panoramic views (Jayne particularly likes this feature - nothing worse than clambering up/down lots of steep steps and living in a dark hole)
• A rear arch to support our 1.1KW (yes!) solar panels, satellite comms and dinghy
• All essential sail handling is from the cockpit: there’s no need to struggle up to the mast to reef.
• A very useful aft technical room to store lots of spare you-name-its
• Large fuel and water tanks (plus watermaker - to come) for long periods of self-sufficiency
• Actual doors at the companionway and not the more typical sliding washboard hatch door access
• Lots of other wonderful features which will be added to this list at a later date…

Read more about Scout’s electronic systems here.