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Monterey Elite 30 OB: Luxury Dayboat With Automotive Feel

Sportboat builder Monterey launched a new premium line of luxury dayboats. Meet the new flagship of the line, the Monterey Elite 30 OB (outboard).

Black, red and white sport boat speeding through a lake at sunset.

Monterey’s new Elite 30 OB was built to run fast (and look good doing so). Photos courtesy, Monterey

Monterey Elite 30 OB

Monterey’s new Elite 30 feels more like a European sportscar than an outboard-powered dayboat. This is the American builder’s first center-helm design, but the wheel is on the port side, behind a vehicle dashboard-like display with full-height windshield that gives this boat an automotive feel. If you want to feel like you’re driving a sexy 600-hp muscle car, but with room for the kids, this might be the boat for you.

Standout Features

  • Glass-cockpit design at the helm
  • Fiberglass hardtop with overhead RGB lighting
  • Lenco Pro automatic trim tabs
Vessel helm featuring black navigation display, black leather seats with red trim and digital switching system.

The automotive-like helm comes equipped Simrad 15-inch NSX Ultra-Wide multifunction display for navigation, fish finding, engine data, and control of the CZone digital switching system. A Fusion sound system adds a soundtrack to your boating adventures.
Twin bucket seats with armrests and flip-up thigh rise bolsters and slides keep the skipper and crew comfortable and secure. Behind them, cockpit seating includes an aft-facing bench seat with integrated wet bar, and transom seats that fold down into daybeds. High padded gunwales help keep everyone safely on board.

Two black bucket seats on a boat with additional red and black bench seating.

Vessel bow showcasing black and red leather seating with various cupholders.

The versatile bow has plush seating all around, with chargers and cup holders close at hand. Beneath each seat is a Yeti cooler. A fill cushion turns the area into a sun bed. Beneath it all is a large storage locker built under the deck.
A door on the console reveals a surprisingly spacious head with an electric toilet with holding tank, indicator and pumpout deck fitting, and vanity with sink and pullout sprayer.

Open console door on a white boat revealing reveals a spacious area.

Main Specs

Length: 
32’6” (with engines)
Beam: 9’10”
Draft 23” (engine up) / 32” (engine down)
Engine 2 x 250-hp or 2 x 300-hp Mercury
Fuel Capacity 200 gallons
MSRP: $272,801
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Author

Kelsey Bonham Bailey

Associate Editor, BoatUS Magazine

Kelsey is an associate editor and writer for BoatU.S. Magazine, covering everything from the environment to tech news, new media to personality profiles. A lifelong sailor, at 20 she refit her own boat top to bottom, then skippered the 30-footer down the ICW. She’s been a professional crew and instructor on boats up to 100 feet, written for several other boating magazines, and earned her 25-ton Master’s license in 2024.