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Formula PC 34 is a rare boat that has earned the right to call itself a performance cruiser. It has a wave-taming deep-V hull that runs nearly 50 mph and can buttonhook turns. It’s also packaged with enough flash and dash to keep you cruising in high style. Built extra-durable, the 34PC looks stunning. You can almost hear it proclaim, “I have arrived!” as you sidle up to the dock.
Intrigued? You should be.
Your first clue that this boat stands apart occurs the moment you push the button that raises the hatch and reveals the engines. Twin 375-hp MerCruiser 496 MAG MPI Bravo Three stern drives are bedded on through-bolted angles. Massive internal sea strainers prevent the engines from ingesting grass, trash, or (yeah, it happens) fish, and then overheating. Every electrical terminal is sealed.
Fast by most measures, it’s also responsive. Most boats of this type take their time—relatively speaking—coming around and reacting to tabs. But the 34PC’s center of gravity is farther aft than most, more like that of a go-fast than a cruiser. And the tabs are mounted “on the wedge,” Formula-speak for their span being mounted lower, down near the keel, rather than higher. Again, this is a go-fast design feature grafted onto a cruiser—no surprise given Formula’s racing heritage.
The 34PC sleeps up to six in a forward berth, aft berth, and convertible dinette/salon settee. Curtains provide privacy. The galley has a solid-surface counter with a flush sliding cover for the recessed cooktop. If the cover isn’t completely open, the power is cut so you won’t accidentally melt the cover. There’s plenty of stowage and a flat-screen TV that can be seen from the entire cabin. Drawers are numerous which are hardwood, not plastic, and ride on rollers and track rather than rely on simple friction.
The head is an easy-to-maintain affair, large enough to comfortably accommodate my 6' frame at both the commode and behind the shower curtain. The curtain is a rigid, trifold piece of plastic that’s just plain cooler than the cheesy sheet of vinyl.
From wire terminals to the hull-to-deck joint, its construction is tops. Even the sun-pad doesn’t obstruct center walkway and replacing the anchor line with chain to get rid of the twist is just another example of a host of great details.
Formula PC 34 is a rare boat that has earned the right to call itself a performance cruiser. It has a wave-taming deep-V hull that runs nearly 50 mph and can buttonhook turns. It’s also packaged with enough flash and dash to keep you cruising in high style. Built extra-durable, the 34PC looks stunning. You can almost hear it proclaim, “I have arrived!” as you sidle up to the dock. 
