Excitement. In life, and on the water. It’s part of what you do and how you live. That’s why we offer the FAS3TECHseries of pure powerboats. Sleek, muscular and breathtaking, the Formula 382 FAS3TECHis the purest, not to mention fastest, reflection of the Formula offshore racing heritage.
At a time when a lot of go-fast V-bottom boat builders were struggling to dial in their stepped hulls and the industry was making a seismic shift from single- to multi-plane running surfaces with varying degrees of success, Formula nailed it right out of the gate.
Without any loss of lateral stability running in straight lines or in turning, the new hulls had increased the top end of the FAS3Tech boats five to seven percent over their SR-1 predecessors. Concurrently, the builder replaced the standard wooden stringers in the hulls for the sportboat line with its stronger and lighter fiberglass grid system.
“Well, what did you think?” asks Pat Laux, who knew I’d spent time in a 38-foot SR-1 as a writer for Powerboat magazine, after I’d driven the new—as in the first one ever built—382 FAS3Tech in Bimini. “Did we get it right?”
I was blown away by the 38-footer, which was powered by twin 500-horsepower engines from Mercury Racing. I told him I was amazed. I told him I loved it.
