Bring Your Daughter to Work Day

When Prestige Yachts was making its 2012 stateside debut I was on the hard from the marine space, a corporate exec in the doldrums. Workweeks consisted of managing a host of Sisyphean tasks and hours-long, back-to-back sessions in conference rooms, where I did my damndest to stay conscious and engaged. When the annual “Take Your Kids to Work Day” would pop up on the calendar, I was not an enthusiastic participant—as much as I wanted the kids around, parental duties to protect my children from the uninspired kept me from doing so.

I still spend an inordinate time trying to stay in the moment with a set of challenging tasks laid before me. But the tide has changed. Days are now spent among sublime natural beauty at the helm of sultry speedsters, chasing fish in southern climes on battlewagons or