New Boat: Maxum 2900 SE
Transforming The Common Cruiser

LOA: 30’
Beam: 9’ 11”
Draft: 3’ 3”
Fuel/water: 125/30 U.S. gals.
Weight: 10,187 lbs.
Power: T-350 MAG MPI Bravo III @ 300 hp
Top/Cruising Speed: 44.05/31.9 knots
Range: 126 nm

Maxum, the brand founded by Brunswick Corporation in 1988 as a bridge between its family recreation boats and its motoryacht lines, also blurs the lines between sport cruisers and performance boats. With the debut of its new 44-knot-plus Axius-equipped 2900 SE on the Tennessee River in September, the line just got a little fuzzier.

While much of the R&D at US Marine–Brunswick’s organizational grouping of Meridian, Maxum, Bayliner, and Trophy–has gone into tooling several new Bayliners and a Meridian, at Maxum the focus was on filling a hole in the line-up with a boat that signals the builder’s next generation with new thinking and equipment. ...

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