Hydra-Sports Hydra-Sports 3300-3400 Vector CC

One hull, two badges: Hydra-Sports sold this 33-footer as the 3300 Vector from 2003 and, after MasterCraft's owner bought the brand out of Genmar's bankruptcy, as the 3400 to 2015. It arrived early in the triple-outboard console wave that now owns American offshore fishing: 23 degrees of deadrise, a Kevlar-reinforced bottom, bulkheads and stringers methacrylate-bonded in and foam-filled. The brief is unapologetic — a 55-gallon livewell on a 3,500-gph pump, stowage for forty rigged rods, 352 gallons in three independent cells, a console you walk into standing up. For crews who need to be a long way out early.

Scout's watch list for this model stands at 25, averaging $136,036; the shelf we publish — what a reader can click — is 1, opening at $94,900. On a boat built around its transom the asking price is mostly an engine price: the hull outlives two sets of outboards, and a set here is three motors, not one.

The honest notes. One of the first buyers off the relaunched Tennessee line reported a factory still finding its feet — missing fasteners, a console rebuilt under warranty — so build year matters more than usual. High freeboard is safety offshore and a nuisance at the ladder; the dive door was an option. It drinks: a mile to the gallon at cruise, and three engines to replace, not one. Nothing sleeps aboard — a head in the console, no berth. If that matters, the same yard's 42-foot Siesta puts a berth in its console, and the 4100/4200 Sport Fish takes the same brief on a bigger salary — neither is on our shelf today. What is, is on the powerboat shelf.