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Clever enhancements, teaks and updates to the Formula Icon 54
Formula's imposing Icon 54 made quite an impression with gamefishermen when the first model arrived in Australia
from New Zealand in 2009. Now the original design has been enhanced and tweaked in a new version for comfortable live-aboard cruising.
Keith Johnson took a long ocean cruise to review these clever updates on what is a very big 54-footer.
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PROWLER PACIFC POWERBOAT JULY 2011 REVIEW
In a deliberate move to instantaneously expand its range, two years ago Formula Cruisers entered into an agreement to build the Prowler catamaran. Embracing the realisation that the brand definitely had a future, the company recently developed and refined the Prowler, to the point that it claims it now represents the very latest thinking in catamaran cruiser design and presentation. Read the whole article...
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Now that NZ yard Formula Cruisers is building the Prowler, there’s more poise and polish, discovers clandestine
catman JOHN ZAMMIT
One of the big advantages of a catamaran is the huge
foredeck for kicking back, entertaining and, as we
discovered, whale watching... Read the whole article...
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The impressive Icon 54 Cruiser from New Zealand boat builder Formula Cruisers, answers the call of the serious coastal cruiser, discovers DAVID LOCKWOOD
One of the great things about pleasureboating is the chummy bunch of seafarers you meet along the way. A wave as you pass to port becomes a chat at a shared anchorage then a meeting after pulling your tender to shore.
Thereafter the offer of drinks at sunset on their deck and, if all goes well, future cruises in company.
Of course, discussions soon turn to boats. Listen up: you can glean a lot from fellow sailors, their experiences, trials and tribulations. It’s word of mouth that led to the recent launch of Formula’s eighth Icon 54, Karizma, pictured hereabouts.
Needless to say, the owners didn’t take their $2 million-plus purchase lightly. After all, they are serious cruising types who like nothing better than getting away from it all at Jervis Bay on the NSW South Coast.
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ICON 54 Pacific Motor Yacht Review Dec 2010
Pacific Motor Yacht, Icon 54, December 2010 boat review. Troy Woods comments "We were very keen to build a Formula 54 with a forward helm and fully enclosed flybridge as this opens the boat up to a whole new group of clients, who are not game fishing orientated".
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Formula Cruisers Boat Review - Prowler 10.4 Powercat
Formula Cruisers have developed an enviable reputation as a builder of luxury monohull cruisers; now they have spread their wings further and developed the Prowler 10.4 power catamaran that while more of an entry level vessel, very much still offers the same high standard of presentation and specification we have come to expect from this builder.
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Formula Cruisers Boat Review - Blue Water issue 75
As much as we consider them sporting foes, if not the ninth state of Australia, New Zealand’s boat and yacht builders are revered. After all, most things in this world are a product of their environment.
In the Shaky Isles, it’s more often tumultuous seas, howling winds and driving rain and spray than the balmy weather we are accustomed to – at least some of the time – across The Ditch.
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Formula Icon 54 Weaponry
- Lucky number seven
Extreme fishing. It’s the ultimate adventure sport: man against
the elements, miles away from the nearest land with only
you and your boat to rely on in pursuit of the perfect catch.
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Formula ICON 54 Magic
Formula
Impressive performance, an extensive list of features as standard and a competitive price-tag make the new Icon 54 very alluring, as Mike Hunter discovered.
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Formula ICON 54 Slick, lavish,
iconic
With a production history spanning 26
years, Auckland's
Formula Cruisers has worked hard to establish itself as a
premium builder of semi-production motor yachts and sports.
While it is naïve to suggest builders of luxury vessels are
'recession-proof', Formula Cruisers has effectively turned the
other cheek and invested in its brand, writes Steve Raea.
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Formula
ICON 54
A Sixth
Sense
The sixth Formula ICON 54 to be launched shows how a design
can mature with age when the right thought and common sense
approach is considered by the builders.
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Go Boating - "Iconic Offshore"
Formula's designers and
naval architects have delivered a distinctively different
express cruiser. The cruiser is built to an exceptionally
high standard. Everything about the Icon 54 spells class
with a capitcal 'C'
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Ocean - "The Right Formula"
New Zealand builder Formula
Cruisers offer highly
customisable, top quality motor
yachts. OCEAN takes a closer
look at how they do it.
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Icon 54' Tramontana
John Julian steps aboard the Formula Icon 54 Sport Fisher Tramontana and finds a sport fisher of fine pedigree.
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Icon 54' Tramontana
Sea Spray Magazine Review
When Formula Cruisers new Marketing Manager, Troy Woods, suggested a weekend aboard their latest vessel Tramontana, we had more volunteers than could be accommodated.
The weekend was to have been shared with our better halves but one thing led to another and pretty soon we had a boys’ weekend planned.
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Icon 54' Temptress
Pacific Motor Yacht
Launched just prior to Christmas, the first Formula Icon 54 exceeded all expectati ons, both in performance and design. Whilst Temptress is the first of the new Formula Icon 54s to be launched, and will soon followed by two more, it is in fact a bigger boat with more volume than the Icon 56 it replaces...
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