"No..." Bazzer shook his head disagreeing, "You give more than that. You give leadership. Know-how. We might be figuring things out, but you're still the one everyone runs to for help, just about. You make us feel like if we fuck up...you'll help make things right," which might not actually be true, but it was a comforting thought nonetheless. Delusions were important sometimes.
"Boats huh?" that didn't seem to fit somehow, "I can't see it. Boats," maybe because he had come here from a desert and now they had been in forest and plains, but not anywhere near oceans or any body of water large enough to put anything more than a canoe into.