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You want one boat that fishes properly on Saturday and that the whole family will get on come Sunday, and you do not want to hire anyone to run it. That is the brief Pursuit has been building to in Fort Pierce, Florida since 1983. Here is our expert assessment of the brand.
— Tony Smith
Founder, Minted Yachts
The thing I would tell you about Pursuit before anything else is that it publishes its homework. Go to a model page and there is a performance PDF sitting there: RPM by RPM, miles per hour, gallons per hour, miles per gallon, range, the test date, the air and water temperature, how many people were aboard and what propeller was fitted. Almost nobody does that any more. Two of the ten brands on this site publish no cruise speed at all. When a builder shows you 33.1 gallons an hour at 4,000 RPM, it is telling you something it cannot take back.
Here is the claim you can argue with. I think the Denali dual consoles are the better buy for most of the people who walk in asking for a center console. The D286 does 1.83 miles per gallon at cruise and 330 miles on 217 gallons, and the full-width hardtop and glass windscreen mean the boat gets used in March and October instead of sitting on the lift. Center consoles look faster in the brochure and get used less. That is not a knock on the Sport line — it is a comment on how people actually boat.
I will give the other side its due. If you fish hard and often, the Sport boats give you a working deck you can walk right around and a hull you can put 900 horsepower on, and the S358 is the only center console in its size class with an enclosed head, which removes the usual reason a fishing boat stays a fishing boat. And one caution that applies to the whole range: Pursuit publishes no performance data for the current-model-year S 288. If a listing quotes you a precise top speed for that boat, it did not come from the builder.
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SportThe center consoles — seven open offshore boats from 25'8" to 43'9", rated 350 to 1,800 horsepowerPursuit Sport series guideDenaliThe dual consoles — six boats from 25'8" to 37'11", walkthrough layout under a full-width hardtopPursuit Denali series guideOffshoreThe cabin boats — 34'6" to 46'6" with berths, galleys and private heads, rated 700 to 1,350 horsepowerPursuit Offshore series guide
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Pursuit's entry point: 25' 8", a single Yamaha F350, 50.2 mph and 2.41 mpg at a 35.9 mph cruise.
The smallest twin-engine Pursuit: 27' 4", twin Yamaha F200s, 52 mph, and 300 miles at a 26.9 mph cruise.
The Pursuit S288 is a 30-foot center console built for serious offshore fishing — 600 horsepower from twin Yamaha F300s or twin Mercury 300s, 217 gallons of fuel, and a private head compartment with a 9-gallon holding tank.
The Pursuit S328 is a 34-foot center console with genuine offshore range — twin Yamaha F350s, 300 gallons of fuel for 348 miles at cruise, a two-person berth, and a vacuum-flush head below.
The Pursuit S358 is a 37-foot center console flagship — twin Yamaha 450 XTOs to 51.2 mph, 343 gallons of fuel, a convertible berth, and the only enclosed head in the 34- to 35-foot center console class.
41' 1" on triple 450 XTOs: 59 mph, 352 miles at cruise, and a below-deck galley with two fridge drawers.
Pursuit's Sport flagship: 43' 9", quad 450 XTOs, 1,800 hp, 60.7 mph and a standard Seakeeper 6.
The smallest Denali: one Yamaha F350 to 49.6 mph, 241-mile cruise range, 8'6" trailerable beam.
Twin Yamaha F200s to 51.3 mph and the Denali line's best cruise: 27.7 mph at 2.46 mpg, 307 miles.
The Pursuit D286 Denali is a 30-foot dual console built to fish hard and cruise comfortably — twin Yamaha F300s to 55 mph, 217 gallons of fuel for a 330-mile range, and an enclosed head with a holding tank for full-day trips.
Twin Yamaha F300s to 52.3 mph and 346 miles at a 28.5 mph cruise — the longest legs in the Denali line.
The Pursuit D326 Denali pairs a 34-foot dual console with twin Yamaha F350s, 300 gallons of fuel and a 394-mile range at cruise, plus a convertible berth and an enclosed head with a 10-gallon holding tank.
Triple Yamaha F350s to 58 mph, with an 8 kW diesel genset and cabin AC standard in a 37'11" hull.
A 34'6" cabin boat that sleeps four and cruises 33.5 mph at 1.27 mpg on twin Yamaha F350s.
Triple Yamaha F350s, 56.5 mph, and 348 miles of published range at a 30.2 mph cruise.
Two sleeping areas, a standard Seakeeper 6 and triple 450 XTOs in a 43-footer that runs 55.1 mph.
Pursuit's largest model: 46'6" with platform, two staterooms, triple 450 XTOs and 49.2 mph.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where are Pursuit boats built?
In Fort Pierce, Florida, where the brand has been built since 1983. Pursuit began in Holland, Michigan — Leon Slikkers formed S2 Yachts in 1974 and introduced the Pursuit series of fishing boats in 1977 — and S2 Yachts opened a roughly 75,000-square-foot Fort Pierce plant specifically to build them. The site has grown steadily since, with 32 acres of adjacent land bought in 2001, a 60,000-square-foot expansion in 2005 that added a lamination building, an engineering building and a test pool, and a further expansion begun in 2019.
Does Pursuit publish speeds in knots or mph?
Miles per hour. Pursuit is an American builder of outboard-powered fishing boats and publishes in mph throughout, so every speed on this site is quoted in mph rather than converted to knots. That matches how Grady-White and Boston Whaler are handled here too. Range figures in Pursuit's test sheets are statute miles, calculated on 90 percent of fuel capacity rather than the full tank.
How many model lines does Pursuit build?
Three. The Sport line is center consoles, running from the S 248 to the S 428. The Denali line is dual consoles, spanning 24 to 36 feet from the D 246 to the D 365. The Offshore line sits above both, from the OS 325 to the OS 445, which Pursuit describes as the largest boat it has built. We review all seventeen, across all three lines.
Does Pursuit publish real performance data for its boats?
Yes, and in more detail than most builders. Pursuit links a performance test PDF from its model pages giving speed, fuel burn, miles per gallon and range at every 500 RPM step, along with the test date, air and water temperature, number of people aboard, propeller fitted and full test weight. It also highlights a best cruise row on each sheet. Every performance figure on this site comes from those PDFs. The one exception is the current-model-year S 288, for which Pursuit publishes no test sheet at all.
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