You can fish a 32-foot center console hard for twelve hours. What you cannot do, when the wind lays down at sunset and nobody wants to run home, is sleep on it. The boats that solve that problem usually start around 40 feet — a bigger slip, a bigger bill, and more boat than most families set out to buy. That gap, between a serious day boat and a boat you can actually stay aboard, is exactly where the Pursuit OS 325 lives.
It is 34 feet 6 inches on a 10-foot 10-inch beam, it carries 300 gallons of fuel, and below deck it has a cabin rated to sleep four, a galley and a private head with a shower. Twin Yamaha F350s take it to 52.6 mph. Pursuit calls it an all-new boat, redesigned from the hull up, and the specification sheet backs that up — a single-piece optically clear windshield, forward-facing bridge deck seating, a dive door in the port topside and a wide transom walkway.
Who It's For
The OS 325 buyer is usually stepping up rather than starting out. You have owned a center console, you fish enough to care about rod holders and fish boxes, and somebody in the family has made it clear that a portable head in a console is no longer the plan. You want a boat you can run offshore on a Saturday, anchor behind an island on a Sunday, and stay on for a night or two in season without booking a room.
You also want to keep it to one boat and one slip. At 34 feet 6 inches with a 10-foot 10-inch beam, the OS 325 fits marinas and lifts that a 40-footer does not, and twin outboards keep the mechanical picture simple: two engines, two props, everything serviceable from the swim platform.
The Numbers Pursuit Actually Publishes
This is the part that separates Pursuit from most builders in the segment. The yard publishes a full performance bulletin for the OS 325 — every 500 rpm from idle to wide open, with mph, gallons per hour, miles per gallon and range. The test ran on 4/25/2024 at a full boat test weight of 16,434 pounds with three people aboard.
| RPM | MPH | GPH | MPG | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,000 | 16.8 | 16.0 | 1.05 | 269 |
| 3,500 | 23.3 | 20.8 | 1.12 | 287 |
| 4,000 | 33.5 | 26.3 | 1.27 | 326 |
| 4,500 | 39.4 | 32.1 | 1.23 | 314 |
| 5,000 | 44.8 | 44.2 | 1.01 | 260 |
| 5,800 | 52.6 | 61.6 | 0.85 | 219 |
Read the 4,000 rpm line twice. That is 33.5 mph at 26.3 gallons an hour, 1.27 miles to the gallon, and a published 326 miles of range — Pursuit calculates range on 90 percent of the test-condition fuel, which is the honest way to do it. Best cruise on this boat is genuinely fast. A lot of 34-foot cabin boats have their efficiency peak down at 25 mph; this one has it at highway speed, which is what makes a 70-mile run to the edge a decision rather than a project.
The rest of the curve is well behaved. Nothing falls off a cliff between 3,000 and 5,000 rpm, so you can pick a speed for the sea state instead of hunting for the one rpm where the boat is happy. Wide open is 52.6 mph, and 0 to 30 mph takes 12.3 seconds — brisk for a boat carrying a cabin, a galley and 300 gallons.
Below Deck: The Reason to Buy This Boat
The cabin is the whole argument, so it deserves the detail. Pursuit rates sleeping capacity at four. The forward V-berth seating converts into a berth with storage underneath, and there is a mid-berth with a full-size three-inch foam mattress, a quilted cover and a hanging locker to port. Large frameless hull-side windows and a 17-by-17-inch foredeck hatch keep it from feeling like a hole, and there are four opening port lights with screens.
The galley is a real galley, not a shelf: a Corian countertop with a flip-up extension, a lower cabinet with two drawers and a slide-out trash can, a pantry locker with shelves and hardwood keepers, upper and lower side cabinets, a 12-volt 1.06 cubic-foot stainless drawer-style refrigerator and a 120-volt 1.1 cubic-foot stainless-faced microwave. A second pull-out 2.3 cubic-foot refrigerator/freezer lives in the cockpit entertainment center alongside an electric grill and a sink, so you are not running below to hand up a drink.
The head is a private fiberglass compartment to starboard with a vacuum-flush marine toilet, an 18-gallon holding tank with a macerator and a deck pump-out, and a Corian vanity with a recessed sink, a mirror with storage behind it and a faucet with a hot/cold pull-out shower wand. There is a shower sump box with an automatic discharge pump. Be clear-eyed about what that is: a wet head with a shower wand, not a separate stall. It rinses salt off four people at the end of a day, which is the job.
On Deck
The layout is built around a centerline walkway, which is Pursuit's way of saying you should not have to convert furniture to move around. The bridge deck has forward-facing lounge seating to port with a fold-out backrest, a molded footrest and storage under the base, and a captain's chair with a swivel base, fold-away armrests, fore-and-aft adjustment and a flip-up bolster.
Standard equipment is deep. A 3.0 hp bow thruster with its own AGM battery, helm switch and fuse is standard, not an option, which on a 34-footer carrying a full hardtop and 9 feet 3 inches of clearance above the waterline is worth real money on a windy day at the fuel dock. So is a Garmin package with dual GPSMAP 9217 displays, a custom Pursuit interface, a B175M 1 kW CHIRP transducer and VHF. Lenco electric trim tabs with auto-retract, a horizontal windlass with a 22-pound plow anchor and 200 feet of rode, and a port dive-style boarding door with a dedicated four-step telescoping ladder round it out.
What to Budget For
Here is where the OS 325 asks something of you that its bigger sisters do not. On this model, cabin air conditioning (10,000 BTU reverse cycle), cockpit air conditioning (12,000 BTU), the 5.0 kW Fischer Panda generator with its 16-gallon diesel tank, and Yamaha joystick control with Set Point and autopilot are all listed as options. The standard twin F350 package comes with digital electric steering and Helm Master EX control but explicitly without the joystick.
That matters twice over. If you intend to sleep aboard anywhere south of Cape Hatteras in summer, air conditioning is not optional in practice, and air conditioning needs the generator or shore power. And the cabin air handler takes the place of storage under the starboard V-berth cushion, so it costs you a locker as well. Price the boat the way you will actually use it, not the way the base sheet reads.
Where It Sits in Pursuit's Offshore Line
The Offshore series is Pursuit's cabin-boat family, and the OS 325 is its entry point. Step up to the OS 355 and you gain a foot and a half of length, a foot of beam, a third engine, an electrically actuated convertible berth, a standing-height enclosed head with a proper shower divider, and — importantly — standard air conditioning, a standard 8 kW generator and standard joystick control.
That is the real decision. The OS 325 is the right boat if you want an overnight-capable fishing platform that stays inside a 35-foot footprint and you are comfortable specifying the comfort equipment yourself. If you plan to live aboard it for long weekends several times a season, look hard at what the OS 355 includes as standard before you decide the smaller boat saves you anything.