A boat is like an RV in many ways. It’s a luxury that you strive to achieve, and the day you tow one home for the first time, you are over the moon. Life doesn’t get any better than that feeling of knowing that you have your boat. It’s fresh. It’s new. It’s fun! Every day is another opportunity to hit the lake, or haul down to the bay, or go putt around the harbor, or whatever things boat people do. Usually it involves fishing and beer, but hey, whatever. Just like an RV, however, you soon realize that upkeep might be more than you bargained for. The costs are exponential. The upkeep is hell. And eventually, that prize possession becomes little more than a pain in the ass that requires a yearly payment to the local government just to exist. That’s why you can find 1970s Dodge motorhomes on Marketplace for minimal money. And that’s why there was an old ski boat attached to the back of the 1977 Dodge that Kevin, Luke, Derek and Dylan wound up getting as part of the deal.

Okay, “deal” isn’t the word we’d use. Dylan got the truck, which as we showed you on the first video, actually isn’t horrible. It’s not great, but it’ll drift in a grassy field like nobody’s business even with a rear axle that might be broken and the worst “random noise” ever created by a moving vehicle. Kevin, meanwhile, got the boat mainly because the engine is a Mercury Marine variant of a Ford 302 small-block…and if there’s one thing Kevin can’t resist, it’s a cheap Ford. (Don’t shoot the messenger, Kev, you know we watch your channel!) So, don’t expect the boat to float for your entertainment. I wouldn’t get on that thing if I was on the rail of the Titanic as it’s starting to go vertical in the water. But can the 302 live? Well, he’s got a pretty solid track record of waking up junked Fords…what’s another?