Though we have a land-based house, for most of the last six years, my wife Laura, daughters Molly, 15, and Madelyn, 12, and I have called our 2003 Carver Voyager 570, Have Another Day, home. That ended on Wednesday September 28th when hurricane Ian struck, sinking our boat and destroying the Fort Myers marina we also called home for the last three and a half years.
Just four days before Ian made landfall in Florida, I was in Tampa helping judge the Innovation Awards at IBEX. At noon that day, the decision was made to cancel the show because Ian was bearing down on the Tampa Bay area. On Monday morning, I headed about 140 miles south to Fort Myers to prepare both our house and boat for what we thought would be a close
