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New York, September 2011. Lewis Gardell watched in horror as his old life and many others’ vanished overnight. After 9/11, buried his Tribeca loft in human tragedy, the holistic dentist moved his wife and three sons to Montauk to hold everyone within the fragile hope of a new home. But he soon found himself tested when they tried to turn a run-down ice cream parlor into a dream restaurant.

Stricken with a lifelong obsession for offshore fishing, Jeff Nichols had been running part-time charters out of Montauk Harbor, once dubbed “the sport fishing capital of the world”, for 10 years with mediocre results. Most of the time, he just brought friends out and considered a trip successful if the customers didn’t stiff him, walk off with his gear, or puke all over him. Then he started a Groupon campaign and became one of the busiest captains in Montauk, sailing twice a day all week long. But unbeknownst to his customers, he was ill-prepared and grossly underqualified.