How DCB Flipped Its Own Script
Until it introduced the first M37R catamaran in 2019, DCB Performance Marine primarily was known as a center-pod-hull custom cat producer The full-tunnel, outboard engine-powered 37-footer essentially opened the East Coast market, which far prefers full-tunnel cats for their superior ride-quality over their lake-bred center-pod cousins, for the Phoenix-headquartered company.
DCB’s full-tunnel catamaran program has expanded the brand’s appeal. Photo by Jeff Helmkamp copyright Helmkamp Photos.
The M37R has attracted 30-plus takers so far, and not just from the West Coast region. Ken and Renee Lalonde, who are among the original organizing-committee members of the 1,000 Islands Charity Poker Run set this year for July 17-19 in Clayton, N.Y, owned one. South Florida’s Greg Harris and Yvonne Aleman have owned two. Indiana’s Kiran Pinisetti and Kelly O’Hara of Upstate New York co-own one.
Both Dave Montroy, another member of the 1,000 Islands Charity event organizing group, and Lake Champlain Poker Run organizing-team member Chris Fisher of Burlington, Vt., purchased pre-owned M37R cats a couple of years ago.
During the 2024 DCB Owners Regatta, Daniel Kuhn took delivery of a 37-footer and brought it home to Southwest Florida. Early that year at the Lake Cumberland Thunder Run, DCB’s Tony Chiaramonte delivered one to Greg and Heather Scheller.
Turns out DCB was just getting started with its own full-tunnel cat revolution.
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