[MUSIC PLAYING]
Rick's friend, Spencer, called up the shop
and said he had a great lead on a boat.
So I thought I'd hop on a plane, come out
to Harsens Island, Michigan.
What a great chance to check out a boat with Rick
and see if we can make a great buy.
Because he's going to be happy to see
yours truly, his best friend.
How you doing, boss?
What the [BLEEP] are you doing here?
Why are you not at work?
You didn't know he was supposed to be here?
RICK: No.
We're at someone's house.
We'll talk about this later, Chum.
SPENCER: Let's go check this boat out, guys.
Boats and bros, Rick.
Boats and bros, you remember.
Explain to me why I can't fire you.
Whoa.
Gentlemen.
How's it going? I'm Rick.
NEAL: Rick? Neal.
How are you?
SPENCER: Well, Rick, is this everything
you were looking for?
Yeah, an old-school wood Chris-Craft.
1925.
Just a little older than I am.
OK.
[BOAT BELL]
NEAL: I have a 1925 triple-cockpit
Chris-Craft runabout.
I really haven't given a lot of thought to selling the boat.
I don't know that I want to get rid of it, but we'll see.
I'm willing to talk to them and have some fun with it.
RICK: That's pretty amazing.
So this was from the '20s.
I can almost guarantee you this thing was used for bootlegging.
NEAL: Yeah, more than likely.
RICK: They would get these things going
40 miles an hour in the 1920s.
That was moving back then.
Well, 40 miles an hour on the lake is moving now.
You're out on the water, you're doing 40 miles an hour,
you were hauling.
And even if the Coast Guard spotted you,
if you were on one of these things,
it was really easy to get away from the Coast Guard
and stash your booze.
You hit the nail right on the head.
That's exactly how it worked.
RICK: So to this day, Chris-Craft is still considered
one of the best boats there is.
This company was, like, family-owned forever.
It was two brothers, Chris and Hank Smith,
that started this in the 1880s.
And basically, the reason why it's called Chris-Craft
is because it was named after Chris's
craft, which was making boats.
NEAL: That's it.
RICK: They're rare, and they're getting rarer all the time.
And the price is going up.
[LAUGHS]
Speaking of price, how much do you want for it?
[SIGH] I wouldn't take any less than $80,000 for it.
OK.
Diamond in the rough.
And guess what?
Your boy, Chumlee, found it for you.
Hey, wait a minute, bro.
I'm the one who put the legwork in.
I found this boat.
Now I know why you didn't want him coming out here.
Listen, you did a great job, Spence,
but I will say something else.
You guys are boring the hell out of Spence and I.
Can we just get on this thing and test-drive
it to even see if it works?
Yeah, and I claim any of the leftover
bootleg whiskey that's been there since the '20s.
Yeah, I would like to take it for a spin
and check everything out on it.
We can do that.
CHUMLEE: All right, guys.
We're going to have a great day out on the water.
It's time to hit the open sea.
We've got an amazing captain and an even better first mate.
Land ho, boys!
[ROCK MUSIC]
[BOAT MOTOR]
[LAUGHTER]
RICK: This thing does get it.
Yeah.
I mean, it's a pretty smooth ride.
Sure is a lot of big ships going through here.
NEAL: Yeah, that is a big boat.
That's bigger than ours.
Somebody's saying hi to us.
Oh yeah!
[LAUGHTER]
Rick, you want to run this?
RICK: Nah, I'm good.
Are you sure?
RICK: I'm sure.
I'll run it.
OK, good.
No.
What do you mean, no?
SPENCER: Oh, let him run it.
He'll be fine.
NEAL: Whoa!
All right, now you put it in gear.
This is your throttle.
OK, so it's--
To your right, yeah.
That's good, right there.
Now you're boogying.
Yeah!
Whoa.
CHUMLEE: This already feels good.
RICK: A nice little spray.
NEAL: Now swap seats with me.
All right, I'm doing the slide-over this time.
NEAL: All right.
RICK: Excellent driving, Chum.
Excellent driving.
NEAL: Don't kick me in the nuts, we're good.
Good job.
You did a real good job.
RICK: All right, that was a hell of a ride.
This thing runs perfect.
CHUMLEE: Boats and bros.
Can we a-- everyone in the middle?
Like a soccer team? Pow!
I'll give you one, bro.
I have some serious issues with you being here, all right?
All right, Rick, let's you and I get off the boat.
RICK: OK.
So how much you want for this?
I told you back in the boathouse, $80,000.
Is that Canadian money?
You are a wheeler and a dealer.
No, that would be US funds.
OK, would you take $65 grand?
[SWIPE]
No, I would not.
The minimum I would take would be $75.
[SWIPE]
Why don't we just say $70,000 and call it a day?
You got to do better than that, Rick.
$72,000 and you have a deal.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
$72.
All right.
CHUMLEE: That's how you close a deal, Rick.
I didn't even have to get out of the boat to do that.
We still need to have a discussion later today.
So, Spence, you know this area.
Is there anything good to pick around here?
There's plenty of places to go picking along here.
The only thing is, we got to go by boat.
Did I say that $72,000 includes
chauffeur services for the day?
No, you didn't.
But I'm not going to be that busy,
and I've enjoyed your company.
All right, so let's go picking.
You're going to actually have to work something today, Chum.
We might have to leave him behind because we're
going to buy so much stuff.
CHUMLEE: Bad news, Spencer.
If anyone's getting left, it's going to be you.
[LAUGHTER]