WINNING FORMULA
On a hot summer Sunday in North Miami, my husband Gary and I stepped aboard the Formula 380 Super Sport Crossover (SSC) with old friends, Vic and Arlene Spellberg. As we cast off the lines and got underway, Vic—who has worked with Formula and its parent company, Thunderbird Products, for many years—and I reminisced about the adventures we had together over the past quarter century sea trialing Formulas for magazines.
Some of these trials were aboard high-performance Formula models that flew through (or I should say, over) the water on the company’s signature FAS3TECH hull. Although the 380 SSC we were aboard that morning is a coupe-style boat designed for luxury day cruising rather than racing or poker runs, Vic told us its
