The thing with Valerie is that she doesn't ask why he wants to hide it.

She just scratches the back of her head and offers, "Look, the key's knowing what you want to hide. Give up on the boat. It's there to stay. Don't act like it's fucked up, or people will notice. It's like how nobody'll pay attention to the guy with the knife when he's standing beside the guy with the rocket launcher, right? The boat's your rocket launcher guy."