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Defens
Oct 26, 2016Explorer
My best friend and his wife bought an Ollie and took delivery early this year. They have had it out a few times, and they love it. They were leaning towards an Airstream originally, but this appears to be a more modernized version of the Airstream line of thinking.
There's no doubt that the Oliver is well constructed - his Legacy Elite II is essentially the same length as the Lance 2155 that my wife and I bought this summer. However, the Oliver is considerably heavier, for much less interior space. It has no permanent bed, a two-seater dinette, and a wet shower. In contrast, with less weight, we have a permanent queen bed, full dinette and dry shower, with two slides.
The Ollie has great ground clearance, a plus for the boondocking we both like to do. I think their power management options are pretty decent as well, but you might still inquire about the manufacturers for the power charger converter, and options for power inverters, solar, solar controller, etc. They used decent stuff on my buddy's, but not what I'd select if I had full choice of components.
In short - I think my buddy has a nice trailer, for him. It's really overbuilt, which fits in with his style: he comes from a blue-water sailing background and his little sailboat (a Baba) is a marine tank. The Ollie is a tank too - but it's very expensive for what you get, and although mainstream manufacturer's are often derided for building "junk" - you can do a lot of custom work, fixing, and modding for the $70,000 price tag on a 24' Oliver!
There's no doubt that the Oliver is well constructed - his Legacy Elite II is essentially the same length as the Lance 2155 that my wife and I bought this summer. However, the Oliver is considerably heavier, for much less interior space. It has no permanent bed, a two-seater dinette, and a wet shower. In contrast, with less weight, we have a permanent queen bed, full dinette and dry shower, with two slides.
The Ollie has great ground clearance, a plus for the boondocking we both like to do. I think their power management options are pretty decent as well, but you might still inquire about the manufacturers for the power charger converter, and options for power inverters, solar, solar controller, etc. They used decent stuff on my buddy's, but not what I'd select if I had full choice of components.
In short - I think my buddy has a nice trailer, for him. It's really overbuilt, which fits in with his style: he comes from a blue-water sailing background and his little sailboat (a Baba) is a marine tank. The Ollie is a tank too - but it's very expensive for what you get, and although mainstream manufacturer's are often derided for building "junk" - you can do a lot of custom work, fixing, and modding for the $70,000 price tag on a 24' Oliver!
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