The OS 445 is the largest boat Pursuit has ever built, but the thing that actually distinguishes it is not size — it is that the galley is upstairs. On almost every outboard cabin boat the cook goes below and misses the afternoon. Here the induction cooktop, the microwave and a 7.5 cubic-foot two-drawer refrigerator are all on the bridge deck, in the middle of the seating, under 26,000 BTU of air conditioning. Add two staterooms with doors that close, a head with a genuinely separate shower stall and private access from the primary, and you have a boat a family stays on rather than visits. Note the length carefully, though: 46 feet 6 inches includes the swim platform and the hull itself is 43 feet 10 inches. Your marina and your lift will each care about a different one of those.
Pursuit publishes its homework, and on this boat the homework is more interesting than usual. The bulletin ran 8/21/2023 at 36,969 pounds with four aboard. The recorded cruise is 25.9 mph at 4,000 rpm, quoted that way for consistency with the rest of the Offshore line — but the sheet does not behave itself. At 4,500 rpm the boat does 35.8 mph at 0.54 miles per gallon and 299 miles of range: ten miles an hour faster than the 4,000 line, at fractionally better economy, with 22 more miles in the tank. That is the number I would plan a long day around. And read the 3,000 rpm line as a warning — 12.2 mph at 29.6 gallons an hour is the boat stuck on the hump. Nursing a 37,000-pound hull to save fuel costs you fuel.
Here is the honest limit. Eleven feet of hardtop clearance above the waterline is sixteen inches more than the OS 405, and that is the number that decides whether you fit under your home bridge or into the building you wanted to store it in — measure before you commit. Nought to thirty in 16.4 seconds against the OS 405's 12.6 is the price of a heavier hull on the same 1,350-horsepower rating. And 600 gallons never buys more than about 300 miles here. If you want the accommodation with less boat to handle, look at the OS 405; if what you want is range rather than rooms, the OS 355 does 348 miles at 30 mph against this boat's 303. Buy the OS 445 because you need two real staterooms and a separate shower, not because it is the biggest one.
— Tony Smith, Founder, Minted Yachts