Moving on from TC's

[Area13]

For now anyways...Plan is to get a smaller older one down the road that I can take on fishing/boating trips without the Wife.

Ultimately our Adventurer 910db was just not fun to drive when on bad roads, windy, etc. and also had reservations about towing the boat too.
It was an awesome camper, well built, loved it. But trying to make enough space for the wife and bring a boat is just too much for my SRW, even with a ton of mods (see sig). I'm much too loyal to my old 7.3 so she stays, camper goes! Luckily I bought it sightly used at a good price and just sold it a year later for only $1500 less, not terrible.

Thanks for all of the info and advice on these forums. I will be back and will definitely lurk a bit. Now off to the TT forums, I just threw up in my mouth.:R

[Testudo]

Gee ! That's huge ! I'd get lost in that. I'd need to call in search parties. It looks too much like home, too. I'm not sure I could find the outdoors. Does it have satellite ? How does it handle off road ???

I'm just putting satellite television on my 6.5 foot OUTFITTER Caribou. When I first started RVing (...as opposed to camping) I kind of recoiled at all the obsession with television on the RV.net. But I got a little hand held over-the-air television and then I started hooking up to campground cable with my laptop. It's been a downhill slide to the devil's idiot box from there. I need the business channels and my laptop gets overloaded trying to watch business channels and running applications. So the satellite will hopefully take some of the burden.

[Fisher_Bill]

Very nice TT and I really like the interior (and you can get in the fridge with the slide in), we did the camper for 4 years and I thought my buddies and I would use it for fishing but it never seemed to be convenient, it only sleeps 2 well and we usually have 3 or 4 fishermen.

We feel like we're wandering the halls in our new to us 5er but it sure is nice to have more space.

[Area13]

Here are some interior phots from the website. Mines exactly the same. Pretty amazed how much room from aa 24' floor.

Heading out on our first trip in 2 days. Trying to figure out if we can hit the grocery store on the way out or need to go before hand. Hmmmm

[Area13]

SidecarFlip wrote:
I almost went away as well. I disliked hauling my old Lance (sold it) around in the wind and it was always a PITA to deal with and store so I went with a P'UP. Much easier to deal with on the road, much lighter too and I picked up 3 mpg with my 7.3 on the highway.

Best part is it fits in the garage when I'm not using it.

Never go back to a HS TC again.

I hear ya. I may end up with a p'up down the road for fishing trips. I just couldn't get comfortable with a big azz hs on my SRW. Best thing about it is getting rid of those 19.5's. HATED them.

[Area13]

Testudo wrote:
WHAT ? ! ? !

You're too young to leave truck camping, 'Area13'.

Maybe you just need to switch wives ( ...grin ! )

I'm lucky in that my wife loves our 6.5 foot OUTFITTER. ( She doesn't take up much room. )

Haha, yeah, i'm gonna miss my TC for sure. I flipped a coin and the wife won..

[Area13]

bighatnohorse wrote:
Will you be getting slide topper for it?
Did you research the Schwintek slide system?

The factory website photos look wonderful.

No slide topper, blew my budget on what was a little more than I wanted to spend, on hopefully a quality TT, impressed so far. I park under cover and will sweep if necessary on the road. Had to sweep my topper on my Adventurer when it snowed anyway. Not familiar with scwintek, but the service guy that did my walk through showed me how to bypass, get it back in in a pinch and stated these units are pretty solid.

[hotrodfords]

Nice trailer. You could live full time in that.

[SidecarFlip]

I almost went away as well. I disliked hauling my old Lance (sold it) around in the wind and it was always a PITA to deal with and store so I went with a P'UP. Much easier to deal with on the road, much lighter too and I picked up 3 mpg with my 7.3 on the highway.

Best part is it fits in the garage when I'm not using it.

Never go back to a HS TC again.

[Testudo]

WHAT ? ! ? !

You're too young to leave truck camping, 'Area13'.

Maybe you just need to switch wives ( ...grin ! )

I'm lucky in that my wife loves our 6.5 foot OUTFITTER. ( She doesn't take up much room. )

[bighatnohorse]

Will you be getting slide topper for it?
Did you research the Schwintek slide system?

The factory website photos look wonderful.

[Area13]

Here we go, got the O.R.V. Timber Ridge 24RKS with the off road package with 16" E's and upgraded suspenion/shocks. Did a TON of research and knew what we wanted. 2" walls throughout. Got the price I wanted today so purchased it, pick up next Friday. O.R.V. is one of the best built rigs out there and are local. Their website with build videos shows the quality they use. It's a Ron Nash company separate from Arctic Fox, same mothership. If anyone ever even thinks of getting a TT, look at these guys. http://outdoorsrvmfg.com/
I LOVE me a TC, but gotta admit, winter razor clammin on the Pacific ocean is going to get very comfy.

https://youtu.be/apozTOcmeoQ

[Area13]

jmtandem wrote:

But trying to make enough space for the wife and bring a boat is just too much for my SRW, even with a ton of mods

How are you going to bring the boat if you are towing a travel trailer? I see almost no difference if you keep the camper and tow the boat with another vehicle or you tow a travel trailer with your truck and tow the boat with another vehicle. Apart from more space in the travel trailer than the truck camper; how does the boat fit into your need to off the camper? Why not just get a dually truck and you can still keep the camper, tow the boat, and not need to throw up in your mouth? And, yea, you will be back. Taking two vehicles to also tow your boat gets real old, real fast.

Not going to take the boat camping. We haven't in a year or more. The amount of space in the TT we just bought is what my Wife wants, and I like it too. We camp 12 months a year and we (she) will be very comfortable now and want to go even more, love getting out of the house, especially in the NW winters. We live 2 minutes from our yacht club with a private dock and boat launch which we also use 12 months a year crabbing and fishing the Puget Sound. This is just a separation of the boat and the camper which we rarely used together and was the original plan, didn't pan out. Like I said, i will probably get an older 8' camper for man trips to the Ocean or Stait of Juan De Fuca fishing, but the Wife is done with campers, i'm not. This is going to work well for us.

[jmtandem]

But trying to make enough space for the wife and bring a boat is just too much for my SRW, even with a ton of mods

How are you going to bring the boat if you are towing a travel trailer? I see almost no difference if you keep the camper and tow the boat with another vehicle or you tow a travel trailer with your truck and tow the boat with another vehicle. Apart from more space in the travel trailer than the truck camper; how does the boat fit into your need to off the camper? Why not just get a dually truck and you can still keep the camper, tow the boat, and not need to throw up in your mouth? And, yea, you will be back. Taking two vehicles to also tow your boat gets real old, real fast.

[Area13]

KD4UPL wrote:
Why not make the truck a dually? Some spacers, 2 wheels and tires, and some fender flares are all you need.

I drive a dually everyday at work, love my SRW for a personal rig. At the end of the day my Wife has been a trooper with TC's, but she wants more space. I'll get a small TC down the road and get the best of both worlds. She also pulled the "You got a new boat, I want more space card on me".:B