New trailer. Lots of questions
Just purchased a flagstaff frbs21. We looked at different floorplans for almost 3 years and kept coming back to this one. Spent three hours going over it at the dealer and had them showing me stuf...
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1) I always carry about 1/3 fresh water. It will depend on the volume of your FW tank. MY Jayco 23RB has 80+ gallon capacity fresh water in two tanks. If you have a 40 gallon tank or less, you may want a little more water. How much fresh water will really depend on how long you will be between available fresh water.
2) Yes, sometimes I will go home with full black water tank. If we are at a full hookup campground, I will dump there before leaving for home. However, sometimes when we are RV tailgating at my university I will go all the way home. We tailgate all weekend in an open field, so there are no hookups. The school does have an on campus dump site. We will use that, if possible. Depending on when we leave our site, There can be a very long line to dump. In that case we drive home and used a campground that a few miles from our house.
3) Backing up will become easier the more you do it. Practicing is a good thing.
2) Yes, sometimes I will go home with full black water tank. If we are at a full hookup campground, I will dump there before leaving for home. However, sometimes when we are RV tailgating at my university I will go all the way home. We tailgate all weekend in an open field, so there are no hookups. The school does have an on campus dump site. We will use that, if possible. Depending on when we leave our site, There can be a very long line to dump. In that case we drive home and used a campground that a few miles from our house.
3) Backing up will become easier the more you do it. Practicing is a good thing.
tdiller wrote:
Just purchased a flagstaff frbs21. We looked at different floorplans for almost 3 years and kept coming back to this one.
Spent three hours going over it at the dealer and had them showing me stuff and verifying that things worked.
Some questions come to mind of course after the fact.
1. When using campgrounds that do not have water at the site do you fill up before leaving home or does the campground have a spot to fill up when you get there? Or do you just run a long hose to fill up from the nearest water?
2. Do you ever leave one campground headed for another without emptying your black/gray tanks? We are planning a week long trip in June with stays of about 2 nights each in three different campgrounds the one in the middle looks like it will have full hookups.
3. does backing get easier? I pulled a popup for almost 20 years but this new trailer is a different beast. I have taken it out to the local college parking lot three times now to practice backing up and such.
