Almost every outboard cabin boat puts the cook downstairs. You go below, you make the food, you hand it up, and you miss the part of the day everybody else is having. The Pursuit OS 445 moves the galley up onto the bridge deck, and that single decision changes what the boat is: not a fishing boat with somewhere to sleep, but a place where the whole crew stays in one room and the cooking happens in the middle of it.
It is also the largest boat Pursuit has ever built. Length overall is 46 feet 6 inches with the swim platform, 43 feet 10 inches without it — both numbers are published and it is worth knowing which one your slip cares about. Beam is 13 feet 10 inches, fuel capacity is 600 gallons, water is 100, and power is triple Yamaha Digital 450 XTO outboards good for 49.2 mph.
Who It's For
This is the buyer who has decided that outboards are the right answer at 45 feet and does not want to argue about it. Three 450 XTOs on the transom mean no shaft, no running gear, a 2-foot-6-inch draft with the motors up, and a service picture you can understand from the swim platform. It also means a joystick, and a boat this size that one person can put on a face dock in a crosswind is a boat that gets used.
It is also a buyer who genuinely needs two staterooms. Not two berths, not a berth and a convertible — two rooms with doors, one of them with private access to the head. If you cruise with another couple or with teenagers, that is the difference between three good nights aboard and one polite one.
The Galley-Up Bridge Deck
Pursuit describes the bridge deck as the star of the boat and the equipment list agrees. There is a 240-volt induction two-burner glass cooktop with touch controls, a 0.7 cubic-foot stainless microwave, and a 7.5 cubic-foot two-drawer refrigerator/freezer — a domestic-scale refrigerator, on the main deck, where the food actually gets eaten. An L-shaped lounge carries a top-load adjustable refrigerator/freezer of its own with large storage drawers beneath, and the bridge deck table is electrically actuated and drops to form another berth.
The whole space is conditioned by 26,000 BTU of 240-volt reverse-cycle air, split 16,000 to port and 10,000 to starboard, and a ceiling-mounted smart TV folds away electrically. The helm and companion seats are Stidd, electrically operated, in front of dual premium Garmin GPSMAP 9022 displays plus a third 9217 at the companion seat.
Below: Two Staterooms and a Real Shower
The primary stateroom takes an island-style berth with a queen-size memory foam and innerspring mattress on a gas-assisted base with trunk storage and drawers below, two hanging lockers with integrated shelving, a 32-inch smart TV with a flush-mounted sound bar, and its own private entry to the head.
The starboard guest stateroom has a berth over storage, a settee, a hanging locker and a 24-inch smart TV in custom cabinetry. Cabin air conditioning is a further 16,000 BTU.
The head is the detail that marks this out from every smaller Offshore model. It is a private fiberglass compartment with two entry doors — one of them straight from the primary stateroom — and a genuinely separate shower compartment with an acrylic partition wall and its own door, with a wand on a hot/cold mixing valve. Everywhere else in the line the shower shares the head; here it does not. There is a vacuum-flush elongated marine toilet with a 22-gallon holding tank, macerator and stainless deck pump-out, and a Corian vanity.
Power for all of it comes from a 12 kW Fischer Panda diesel generator with a sound enclosure and a service slide.
The Performance Sheet, Read Honestly
Pursuit publishes a full bulletin, tested 8/21/2023 at a full boat test weight of 36,969 pounds with four aboard. Range is calculated on 90 percent of the test-condition fuel.
| RPM | MPH | GPH | MPG | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,000 | 12.2 | 29.6 | 0.41 | 230 |
| 3,500 | 19.9 | 36.4 | 0.55 | 303 |
| 4,000 | 25.9 | 52.0 | 0.50 | 277 |
| 4,500 | 35.8 | 66.6 | 0.54 | 299 |
| 5,000 | 41.1 | 82.6 | 0.50 | 277 |
| 5,500 | 46.4 | 102.7 | 0.45 | 251 |
| 5,900 | 49.2 | 111.1 | 0.44 | 246 |
Two things stand out, and both are useful.
The first is 3,000 rpm. Twelve point two miles per hour at 29.6 gallons an hour and 0.41 mpg is the worst line on the sheet — that is the boat wallowing at the top of the hump, neither displacing nor planing. A 36,969-pound hull needs commitment to get up and stay up. Do not try to nurse it along at 3,000 rpm to save fuel; it costs you fuel.
The second is more interesting. The recorded cruise for this boat is 25.9 mph at 4,000 rpm, chosen for consistency with how the rest of the Offshore line is quoted. But look at 4,500 rpm: 35.8 mph at 0.54 mpg and 299 miles of range. That is 10 mph faster than the 4,000 rpm line, at fractionally better economy and 22 more miles of range. The curve is not monotonic, and 4,500 rpm is the honest fast-cruise number for anybody planning a long day. Both figures are Pursuit's own; the 4,500 line is simply the one the boat likes.
Top end is 49.2 mph at 111.1 gallons an hour. Acceleration is 0 to 30 mph in 16.4 seconds, against 12.6 for the OS 405, 12.3 for the OS 325 and 10.7 for the OS 355 — exactly what you expect from a heavier hull on the same 1,350-horsepower rating as the OS 405.
On Deck
The cockpit is set up around yacht-style recessed side-deck bulwarks with molded access steps, so you walk forward inside the boat instead of edging along a gunwale. The foredeck is a finished entertaining and cabana space under a removable Mediterranean sunshade on carbon-fiber poles. Ground tackle is serious: a vertical windlass, a 44-pound stainless plow and 320 feet of rode.
Stabilization and trim are both standard — a Seakeeper 6 gyro with factory-certified structural integration, plus a Zipwake dynamic trim system handling pitch and roll automatically. A 75-gallon insulated transom refrigerator/freezer handles the catch. Deadrise is 20 degrees.
The Honest Limits
Three, and none of them are secrets.
Hardtop clearance is 11 feet above the waterline. That is 16 inches more than the OS 405 and it is the number that decides whether the boat fits under a fixed bridge on your home water or into the building where you wanted to store it. Measure before you fall in love.
Fuel economy is what it is: 0.54 mpg at the fast-cruise line and 0.44 at wide open, out of 600 gallons. Pursuit's own published range never exceeds 303 miles at any planing speed. This is a boat for long days and coastal hops, not for treating 600 gallons as though it buys 600 miles.
And the length is genuinely two numbers. Forty-six feet six inches includes the swim platform; the hull is 43 feet 10 inches. Marinas, lifts and haul-out yards will each care about a different one of those, so quote both.
Who Should Buy Something Else
If you want the same accommodation with less boat to handle, the OS 405 gives you two sleeping areas, a Seakeeper and the same triple 450 XTOs for 5,400 fewer pounds and 16 fewer inches of air draft — but only one room with a door and a shower that shares the head. If what you actually want is range rather than rooms, the OS 355 publishes 348 miles at a 30.2 mph cruise — more than this boat's 303, the OS 405's 317 or the OS 325's 326. The OS 445 is the right answer when the requirement is two staterooms, a separate shower and a galley on the same deck as everybody else. That is a short list of boats, and this is the biggest one Pursuit has put on it.