This 12.5-foot Zodiac with a 25hp Mercury two-stroke is Dustin's workboat, tender, and rescue platform all in one. It's fast, tough, and the boat he grabs when something needs doing on the water.

It's also a true exploration boat — motorsurfing across the Bay, ripping out to Catalina Island, and running up and down the California and Baja coast. Dustin has taken this boat all sorts of places, and it's built for exactly that kind of adventure.

It's also the boat he's taken out when it was blowing 40 knots with big seas to help people who needed it — pulling sailors out of the water after they've gone overboard, chasing down and saving their unmanned boats before they hit the pier, and assisting race competitors who lost their rigs.

A small boat, used seriously. It's a reminder that capability and seamanship matter more than size.

Small boat. Serious work. Serious adventure.