The Pursuit Boats factory is located in Fort Pierce, Florida, just a few miles from where my stepdaughter Kaitlyn and her boyfriend Nick live. Both in their late 20s, they are enthusiastic anglers who usually fish from the banks of the ICW. When Pursuit invited me to sea trial the new S 328 Sport, I realized this would be a great time to introduce the couple to the joys of wetting a line from the cockpit of a premium center console.
Soon after we boarded the S 328 at Safe Harbor Harbortown Marina in Fort Pierce, Nick discovered the 24-gallon recirculating live well inside the boat’s transom—a major improvement over keeping your live bait in a bucket. He and Kaitlyn happily toured the rest of the center console’s fishing features, including two fish boxes in the cockpit, a bait-prep area with sink and tackle storage behind the helm seats, padded coaming around the boat’s deep interior, rod storage in the gunwales and console, rocket launchers on the hardtop, and downriggers.
“Everything on this boat is amazing,” Nick pronounced.
The 2025 Pursuit S 328 Sport is an updated version of a previous model by the same name that was in the builder’s line for 8 years. That boat outsold the competition in its size range, including both premium and less expensive center console brands. “It has been the bestselling 32-foot center console in the market for a long time,” said Mark Taiclet, director of brand management for Pursuit Boats. He admits that posed quite a challenge for the Pursuit design team when it came time to refresh the model. “They were big shoes to fill for sure.”…