Leigh,
The company in Cadillac is Four Winns, I worked for OMC for 10 years prior to their demise & then for Genmar for a few months. The company I was with was Seaswirl. We built 19-29 foot offshore fishing boats. The most fun at that job was testing the boats offshore on bumpy seas, and it can get pretty bumpy off Oregon. Now I'm Risk Management with the government. I am familiar with Baja. There was a boat lost here a short time ago (off Oregon) that could have used some of your nonlinear dynamics insight.
Ken