DCB Customers To Company Employees—There Is A Free Lunch – Speed on the Water

Just before Thanksgiving, I received a text from Chris Fisher, who is one of the organizers of the annual Lake Champlain Poker Run in Burlington, Vt. In addition to being a great supporter of speedontehwater.com, Fisher, who took delivery of a pre-owned DCB M37R catamaran this summer, is this daily news site’s finest unpaid copyeditor. So I reckoned he was texting to let me know I’d omitted a word, a sin of which I’ve been guilty of more than a few times during the years, in a recent story.

Now brothers in DCB arms, Fisher (left) and Pinisetti (right) co-organized the luncheon for the Phoenix-based company’s staff. Photo from the 2023 Speed On The Water Key West Bash by Jeff Helmkamp copyright Helmkamp Photos.

Not so.

“Hey, I need a few phone numbers I don’t have for DCB owners,” he wrote. “I want to put together a lunch for the employees at DCB. Can you help me out?”

Within a few days, I had all the numbers he’d asked for and sent them his way. Then Fisher went to work making calls. Of the 24 owners he contacted, including Indiana’s Kiran Pinisetti who co-owns a new DCB M37R catamaran called Cowboy & Indian—the first to be powered by Mercury Racing 500R outboard engines—all 24 stepped to pay for the catered employee lunch last Wednesday at DCB headquarters in Phoenix.

“Nobody at DCB knew about it but Tony Chiaramonte, not even Jeff Johnston or Craig Hargreaves,” said Fisher during a telephone interview this afternoon. “I reached to a few friends like you and Devin Wozencraft and sent out well over 300 texts putting this thing together—and made quite a few friends in the process. Everyone said, ‘Yes, what do you need?’

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Scenes from Wednesday’s catered lunch.

“I know we’re a bunch of needy owners,” he added, then laughed. “It’s nice to be able to thank all the people at DCB who make it happen.”

Pinisetti ran with the idea and secured the caterer.

“The guys behind the scenes never get recognized and that was our motivation for putting together the luncheon,” he said. ”We just wanted them to know their hard work has never gone unnoticed by the boat owners of the boats they created.”

As members of the go-fast boating community and first-time DCB owners, Fisher and Pinisetti knew of one another. But they cemented their friendship during the Race World Offshore Key West World Championships in early November.

“Kiran was the perfect fit,” Fisher said then chuckled. “He definitely made sure that all the ‘Is’ and ‘Ts’ were dotted. Let’s just say he had the perfect amount of chiefs and Indians to pull this whole thing off.”