Tokarz has been restoring old boats for about three decades as a hobby and as a way to unwind from his career chasing bad guys all over the globe as a federal agent in one of the U.S. Government’s 3-letter agencies.
When he retired in 2022, he turned his uber-organized boatbuilding shed into MotorCity Boat Werks, a youtube channel that covers the how-tos in amateur boat restoration.
His tells us how the boat werks is different than other, pro-run restoration shops and his latest, long-term project — the multi-year, soup-to-nuts restoration of a 1986 Albin 27 pocket trawler.
Joe goes into detail on the Albin, how sailing kept him sane during a demanding career and his bucket list trip to the Netherlands, where him and his wife, Grace, spent 3 weeks on a chartered steel trawler.
