Boat part time RV part time
Greetings, My husband and I have been living aboard our sailboat since 2005 and have recently been talking about purchasing a travel trailer and splitting our time up between living on the boat and a...
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chrokeva wrote:
It is very nice that the RV option is much cheaper than the boat! We already have a F250 and it looks like we can get into a pretty nice trailer for well under 10K. If we can keep our boat slip fees down this likely can work. We have a big boat (65 loa) so even without liveaboard fees we are paying close to $700 a month. If we add liveaboard fees that brings it up it up another $200-$350 a month more. Wish boat storage was a reasonable as rv storage :(
Obviously with a 65' boat, your slip fees will be much different from what we see with a 34' boat.
If you are just a couple, I would look at 5th wheels but with the F250, you need to watch the pin weight. Pin weight is usually the limiting factor towing a 5th wheel. Assume around 25% of the GVWR as a good starting point. Do not use the manufacturers unloaded weights as they aren't realistic.
If that results in too small of a trailer, you can upgrade the truck or consider a travel trailer, which for the same length trailer doesn't need as big of a truck as the ball usually only supports about 10% of the trailer weight. But the 5th wheel tows so much nicer and more of them are better set up for long term use.
