Boston Whaler 360 Outrage

Take the 380 Outrage if you want the bigger cabin and more engine ceiling; take the 360 if you want the smaller, lighter boat. The 380 is 38 feet by 11 feet 8 inches against 36 feet 5 inches by 11 feet 3 inches, carries 445 gallons of fuel to the 360's 415, and rates to 1,700 horsepower against 1,350.

The cabins separate them further. The 360 has a berth with 12,000 BTU air conditioning and an enclosed head with a shower. The 380 has a convertible settee that becomes a double berth, air conditioning, and a pull-out shower, and carries 60 gallons of water against 45. Capacity goes from 14 people to 16. Weight is the honest trade: 13,383 pounds dry against 14,500, and 18,281 loaded against 19,715.

Boston Whaler rates the 360 Outrage from 900 to 1,350 horsepower, which in practice means triple or quad outboards. That is a large step up from the 600 to 850 on the 330 Outrage, and it reflects the weight: 13,383 pounds dry and 18,281 pounds loaded with engines, fuel and water.

The rating tells you the useful thing. With three or four engines you get redundancy, and being able to come home on the remaining motors is worth more than any top-speed claim when you are 40 miles out.

It is built for it. The 360 Outrage is a 36 foot 5 inch hull with an 11 foot 3 inch beam and 18,281 pounds of loaded weight, and that combination of length and mass is what settles a boat in a head sea. The foam-filled construction Boston Whaler has used since 1958 means the hull is unsinkable by design.

That last point stops being marketing trivia when you are a long way offshore in a building forecast. The brand's own long-running demonstration is a sawn-in-half 13-footer with both halves still floating. Current hull technology is marketed as WhalerStep. Draft is 27 inches, so the boat still works inshore. If you want more hull under you for the same job, the 380 Outrage adds length and a broader 11 foot 8 inch beam.

Yes. The 360 Outrage has a cabin with a berth and 12,000 BTU air conditioning, plus an enclosed head with a Vacu-Flush system and a shower. Water capacity is 45 gallons and the waste tank holds 10 gallons. That is a genuine one- or two-night setup for a couple rather than a full cruising interior.

The air conditioning is the part that changes how you use the boat. A cabin without it is storage; with it, it is somewhere you want to be in August. Plan around the 45 gallons of water, because that governs showers more than anything else does. If two nights aboard is the routine rather than the exception, the 350 Realm puts the same idea behind an enclosed helm.

415 gallons. That sits between the 300 gallons on the 330 Outrage and the 445 on the 380 Outrage, and it is what makes the 360 a genuine offshore boat rather than a coastal one. Water capacity is 45 gallons and the waste tank holds 10.

Range depends on how you run it and which engine package you chose. What you can plan on is this: 415 gallons behind three or four engines gives you the fuel to reach real offshore structure and get home with reserve. Loaded, the boat weighs 18,281 pounds, and that mass is part of why it holds a heading in a seaway.

The 360 Outrage suits an owner who fishes hard offshore but wants a cabin to come back to. It is a 36 foot 5 inch center console with an 11 foot 3 inch beam, a berth with 12,000 BTU air conditioning, and an enclosed head with a Vacu-Flush system and a shower. It carries 415 gallons of fuel and up to 14 people.

That cabin is the reason to step up from the 330 Outrage, which has no berth at all. You get somewhere to put kids down, get out of the sun, or sleep before a tournament start. Dry weight is 13,383 pounds and 18,281 pounds loaded, so this is a lift-and-slip boat rather than a trailer boat. Horsepower runs 900 to 1,350.