Thinking About a TT, Confused About Towing
Hi all! Sorry if this has been asked over & over, I did a search, but didn't find anything that didn't confuse me more. We are considering a travel trailer to spend some time in National Parks, but ...
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canoe on top wrote:
Wind resistance is a factor to consider when towing near the edge of capacity. Towing a barn door creates a lot of resistance and headwinds are annoyingly common. Something more aerodynamic like a Casita or R-pod might help a lot in that regard. They also have pretty low tongue weights
"headwinds are annoyingly common...."
Ha ! Ha ! Ain't that the truth. Seems like as luck would have it we seldom get tailwinds.
Having said that, my Funfinder is about as tall and wide as any of them, and I have towed into some vicious headwinds, as well as the also all to common heavy sidewinds and the Frontier does fine as long as the expectations are reasonable. True, it is not going to like the idea of running 75 mph road speed into a heavy headwind, but I just don't ask that of it.
