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SYDNEY BOAT SHOW: Open-minded Pursuit
US boatbuilder embraces more and bigger open boats to 37-feetWe’re seated in the bow of a cool 26ft centre console at the 2014 Sydney International Boat Show. Paul Perry (shown above), Vice President of Sales at S2 Yachts, the company behind Pursuit and Tiara boats in America, is telling it as it is.
“The big thing in the USA is open boats up to 37-feet. People think they will stay aboard a boat but they don’t. So we have extended our open-boat range, providing a step-down head and change-room, freshwater deck shower and so on, but with an open bow,” Perry explains.
Pursuit — considered a best-seller with its cruising or cabin fishers from 28-33 feet, and with production of 400-450 boats a year — is hoping to extend its appeal with a recently released DC 325 Dual Console (photo above) matched to twin 300hp outboards.
“That’s the other big change,” Perry says, “outboard engines fit with today’s day-boating demands whereas the inboard engine market remains very slow.”
Pursuit’s 365 Sports Coupe, the only boat in that range and a flagship cruiser for the company, is a case in point. With Tiara-type styling, the sports yacht runs twin 350hp outboards in what the company calls “integrated outboard technology” that conceal the engines in a moulded, enclosed transom engine bay.
At the 2014 Sydney boat show, local Pursuit dealer Lifestyle Marine had a good spread of Pursuits in different configurations amid its biggest ever boat-show display. General Manager Damien Hurt said there was some strong buyer interest for the brand.
Specifically, there were Pursuit C230 and C260 centre consoles; a dual-console DC 265 (sold to a Sydney buyer who was a mad-keen fishos that wanted to cruise with the family as well); and a 255 Offshore (pictured) that rates as a well-equipped cabin boat for $184K on trailer with twin 150hp four-stroke outboards.
All Pursuits sold through Lifestyle are Mercury outboard rigs. Perry also told BoatPoint and boatsales that there will be a new Tiara 44 from the Coupe line — catering for those getting out of flybridge cruisers —at the 2014 Fort Lauderdale Boat Show in October.
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