How many take boats with them?
Just wondering how many people bring a boat along with their RV to the campgrounds?
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PA12DRVR wrote:
"TW, if anyone is using a boat hauler that mounts on a truck, I'd like to hear your experience. I have a '14 Alumacraft that needs to travel on the truck."
Ditto this ^^^^
Sourcing a 14' boat for going on the truck either by itself or when towing the 23' "big boat".
FWIW, any given summer weekend, there are dozens of folks camping (equal mix of RV's and tents) at many Southcentral Alaska lakes with boats along, powered, canoe, kayak, even SUP's lately.
We had a 12' Alumacraft boat that we took with us when we had a travel trailer. I built a frame out of 2x4's with legs that slid into the truck bed pockets. I carpeted the top of the cross bars where the boat rested and used tie-down straps to hold the boat in place. I could manage it okay but 2 people were better to load/unload. With a 14' boat you would need a couple of people I'm sure. We had an extended cab truck and the front of the boat covered about half of the cab roof so I imagine that a 14' boat would come forward to about the windshield. We had 8' beds on our trucks also.
