As computer guys go, Dan Schiappa is a knowledgeable one. He works in cybersecurity from his home on the Gulf Coast of Florida, where he often heads out for a week or longer aboard RanSomeWhere Else—his Aquila 54. He simply takes his work with him, without missing a beat.
“I never feel like I’m away from the home office,” Schiappa says. “I’m just as productive on the boat as I am at home, except when I look out the window of the Aquila, I have a much better view. You can walk around the entire boat with the laptop. You can sit in the cockpit one day, on the sundeck another day. It’s freedom you can’t get anywhere else.”
Schiappa is far from alone. Two primary forces—the pandemic and the accessibility of Starlink—are driving a sea change in the way boaters choose to work or homeschool their
