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May 10, 2014Explorer II
You can sleep six with some of the bunk bed options on 16-foot molded fiberglass trailers, but at that length you have to give up the bathroom to get the 5th and 6th bunks.
A 19-foot Escape would work if you could get the factory to leave out the cabinets over the front dinette, and rig a pair of pipe cots over that space. That's how we managed to get beds for eight (we actually slept 10 first trip because you can put a lot of little ones onto a 60x80 inch bed) in a 18-foot Corsair, early 1960s.
It is not that the TT manufacturers can't build something like this, because they used to do it regularly. They don't do it now because there just is not a market for it, families that large want more space to move around inside when they are not sleeping, so bunkhouses tend to be 25-30 foot.
A 19-foot Escape would work if you could get the factory to leave out the cabinets over the front dinette, and rig a pair of pipe cots over that space. That's how we managed to get beds for eight (we actually slept 10 first trip because you can put a lot of little ones onto a 60x80 inch bed) in a 18-foot Corsair, early 1960s.
It is not that the TT manufacturers can't build something like this, because they used to do it regularly. They don't do it now because there just is not a market for it, families that large want more space to move around inside when they are not sleeping, so bunkhouses tend to be 25-30 foot.
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