Back In The Saddle With The Cowboy And Indian DCB M37R

Since taking delivery of their DCB Performance Marine M37R catamaran called Cowboy & Indian in 2023 after the boat was showcased during the June introduction of the Mercury Racing 500R outboard engine in Charleston, S.C., owners Kelly O’Hara of New York and Indiana’s Kiran Pinisetti have logged 8,400 miles in it. They have put something in the neighborhood of 275 hours on its supercharged V-8 engines.

And for a summer-long story series I wrote in 2024, I was with them for almost half of it.  When the season ended after the Lake Powell Challenge in September, I didn’t just have a well-informed opinion of the M37R. I had two blood brothers with whom I’d shared enough joy and laughter to fill 20 boating seasons.

Unless you looked at catamaran’s GPS monitor, you’d never know how far it’s traveled in just two years. Photos from the 2025 Rock The River Cincy Fun Run by Pete Boden copyright Shoot 2 Thrill Pix.

So how has the 37-footer held up since? I founded out last weekend when I joined O’Hara of and Kiran Pinisetti in Ohio for the Rock The River Cincy Fun Run, an event we tackled to together in Cowboy & Indian last year.

Save for one scratch courtesy of an over-zealous dockmaster in Tampa who “knew better” than the boat’s owners about how to tie up a cat, the 37-footer doesn’t have a mark on it. Its shiny black and white gelcoat is still black and white and shiny. The tidy red stitching in the vinyl-wrapped dash and Alcantara upholstery is still tidy and red. The Alcantara itself looks as if it were just taken from a herd of freshly harvested Alcantaras.

Short version? The boat, which as noted above has logged 8,400 miles in the water even more behind its hauler while crisscrossing the country for events, looks exactly as it did the last time I saw time I rode in it almost a year ago the Lake Powell Challenge

You can credit O’Hara and Pinisetti for a lot of that. Fastidious doesn’t begin to describe their care for the boat, but it’s the best word I have for it. Still, sunshine and weather are what they are—and Cowboy & Indian doesn’t look as if it’s spent a day in them, much less dozens of days in them.

Pinisetti (left) and O’Hara struck a familiar pose for the author.

Yes, the boat has been meticulously kept. But it was built to hold up.

Neither owner has spent much time in the cat this summer—much less together—so both were eager to get back in the cockpit. Pinisetti drove the outbound leg of the run some 80 miles to Smuggler’s Cover Marina for fuel. O’Hara brought us back to our Manhattan Harbor Marina starting point.

Both were giddy after the experience.

“I’d forgotten how amazing it is,.” Pinisetti marveled after his turn behind the wheel.

Same here. But the moment we crossed some sloppy wakes and chop at 110 mph and angled through a sweeping turn at 105 mph with Pinisetti behind the wheel, I remembered.

The DCB M37R catamaran delivers a remarkably smooth and docile ride—that, too, has not changed. The cat does some of its most impressive work in sloppy water. Its handling manners are refined.

At one point during the return leg while were running 90-plus mph, O’Hara spied a large chunk of debris in our path. So he made an evasive zig-zag maneuver to avoid hitting it.

I poked my head around his bucket to get his attention. He grinned at me and shook his head and said nothing. But his message was clear.

This boat is amazing.

I nodded back and hollered, “Well that was a non-event.”

You can check out Cowboy & Indian yourself this week at the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout and concurrent Super Cat Fest events in Central Missouri. The 37-footer, as will O’Hara’s wild 40-foot MTI catamaran, will be there all week.

You won’t be alone if you think it looks brand new.

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