Scarab is a brand of high performance power boats formerly owned by

Wellcraft Wellcraft is a brand of American powerboats. It was founded in 1955, making wooden runabouts. The company is owned by Groupe Beneteau, part of its Rec Boat subsidiary. Acquisitions In 1982, Wellcraft purchased California Yachts from the Marsha ...

and currently by Rec Boat Holdings,Scarab makes a comeback as a new line of jet boats
Pete McDonald, Boating Magazine a subsidiary of Groupe Beneteau. Wellcraft still makes a line of fishing boats which are currently known as ''Scarab Offshore''.Scarab Center Console Fishing Boats
, Wellcraft.com Scarab boats were popularly featured in the 1980s TV series

Miami Vice ''Miami Vice'' is an American crime drama television series created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series stars Don Johnson as James "Sonny" Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo Tubbs, Ricardo "Rico" Tub ...

. As of the second season of the series, the main character Sonny Crockett piloted a Wellcraft 38 Scarab KV. In Riptide, the counterpart to the eponymous boat where the detectives work is the Ebb Tide, a 38' Scarab powered by KAAMA Power Systems. Scarab also was a main feature of the TV show ''

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'' from season 2 onwards. One was used by television presenter

Richard Hammond Richard Mark Hammond (born 19 December 1969) is an English journalist, television presenter, and author. He co-hosted the BBC Two motoring programme ''Top Gear (2002 TV series), Top Gear'' from 2002 until 2015 with Jeremy Clarkson and James Ma ...

in a special episode of

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entitled "The grand tour presents... Seamen". The boat livery originally said "Razzle Dazzle" but this was changed by co-presenters

Jeremy Clarkson Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English television presenter, journalist, farmer, and author who specialises in Driving, motoring. He is best known for hosting the television programmes ''Top Gear (2002 TV series), T ...

and

James May James Daniel May (born 16 January 1963) is an English television presenter and journalist. He is best known as a co-presenter, alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, of the motoring programme ''Top Gear (2002 TV series), Top Gear'' fr ...

to say "Jizzle Drizzle". Several Scarab boats were featured in Terry "Hulk Hogan"'s Thunder in Paradise TV series, including the ''Thunder'' boat itself.

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* American boat builders {{commonscat, Scarab boats