"Porter quickly took me under his wing and was relentless in helping me find a job on a boat. “The way this typically works, Cody,” Porter told me over a morning beer, “is we go to that there bar, find some guy on a high-dollar boat, and buy’ um drinks all night. When he’s good an’ drunk, we’ unna break his legs. Then you’ll show up at his boat in the morning when his skipper needs a new man.” He was dead serious."