SPEED EFFICIENCY OPERATIONnaut. stat. n. mi. s. mi. sound
rpm knots mph gph mpg mpg range range angle level
2000 4.0 4.6 1 4.0 4.6 201 232 0 78
2500 5.1 5.9 2 2.6 3.0 129 149 1 81
3000 6.4 7.4 4 1.6 1.8 80 93 1 83
3500 7.0 8.1 5 1.4 1.6 71 81 3 87
4000 8.7 10.1 6 1.5 1.7 73 84 4 85
4500 12.1 13.9 7 1.7 2.0 87 100 5 87
5000 18.5 21.3 8 2.3 2.7 117 134 3 92
5500 25.8 29.7 11 2.3 2.7 118 136 3 93
6000 29.6 34.1 14 2.1 2.4 107 123 2 91
6500 33.3 38.3 18 1.8 2.1 93 107 1 95
7000 38.9 44.8 24 1.6 1.9 82 94 1 91
7500 41.7 48.0 30 1.4 1.6 70 81 1 95
8000 46.4 53.4 36 1.3 1.5 65 75 1 95
MOST ECONOMICAL CRUISING SPEEDHigh Points
XMarineMat decking on the plat-
form give style and convenience
for booting up for a ride.
XHead compartment is more
spacious than in some boats with
more length and beam.
XTouchscreen display is unusually
bright in full sunlight.Specs
· LOA: 25'0" · BEAM: 8.4"
· DRY WEIGHT: 3,660 lb. · SEATING/
WEIGHT CAPACITY: 13/2,100 lb.
· FUEL CAPACITY: 56 gal.How We Tested
ENGINE: Twin Rotax water jets 250 hp
IMPELLER: Stainless steel
GEAR RATIO: 1.00:1
FUEL LOAD: 20 gal.
CREW WE IGHT: 550 lb.
Price
$70,569 (base with
test power)SCARAB
255 Impulse
Wake Edition
L-shaped lounges as well. Need more seat-
ing on the transom and less in the cockpit?
Flip the seat backs forward and the swim-
deck seating opens up for casual reclining
while at anchor. The seating and wide-
open deck plan make for easy passage
from bow to stern, even with heavy loads.
The upholstery of Scarab’s spacious
cockpit and foredeck seating plan is
sports-car fi rm, with enough fl ex to soften
bumpy waters. That’s important on big-
ger lakes and impoundments throughout
the Midwest. It’s good-looking too, with
multiple colors and textures of vinyl to
complement the exterior fi nish.
The Scarab 255 Impulse is luxury and
watersports- and family-friendly all at once.Scarab has meant performance boating
for decades, and that DNA is present in
the 255 Impulse Wake Edition with a new
spin: It’s surfable, as Wakeboarding maga-
zine’s Emily Dale proved in our recent test.
Dale liked the wave at 10.2 mph, and
we held that easily using the touch-panel
speed control complete with multiple rider
profi les. With her speed logged into the
system, we topped off the ballast at 1,200
pounds, grabbed a few extra passengers,
and hit the throttle. Dale tucked into the
wake for a sporty ride — her fi rst on a jet-
powered boat, which keeps the impellers
within the hull, away from rider contact.
Jet pumps push this boat forward, and
crew and ballast drive it down, making a
sizable hole in the water that pushes up
a big wake as the water returns to fi ll it.
The touchscreen is like a head-up
display and gives touch control to enginesystems, stereo and more. Throttle control
is enhanced by an industry-fi rst Intelli-
gent Neutral and Reverse (iNR) system.
Bump up the throttle settings or drop
them back at the tap of a button. You can
customize the amount of touch adjust-
ment you want, from approximately 1
millimeter of throttle travel to about 15
millimeters. Five millimeters of travel
gives an approximately 1 mph adjustment.
A central transom walkway gives a
convenient path to the cockpit that can be
shaded with a fi xed Bimini top under the
wakeboard arch. You’ll have a big specta-
tor crowd inside, since the cockpit and
bow seat a massive 13-man crew. There is
plenty of comfort in the port and starboardPHOTOS: COURTESY SCARAB JET BOATSSCARAB JET BOATS
Cadillac, Michigan; 231-775-1351; scarabjetboats.comC
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