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Golden_HVAC wrote:
I don't think I would want anything that light.
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A-Liners are fairly lightweight. I could only wish them to be large enough to contain a decent size bathroom, with a shower, and toilet. So they are to small for me to be comfortable. I like dry camping, away from any campground with facilities, and not considering a tree as my bathroom.
Fred.
Here's a pic of the wet bath/cassette toilet in my 06 Aliner LXE. It weighs in at around 1,500 lbs dry and 1,700 lbs ready to camp. It's the low walled, aluminum skinned model which is lighter than the high-wall or fiberglass skinned models.
There is a Chalet model A-frame with a dormer with a separate bathroom inside.
Chip- The Opera certainly is interesting, niche for $38,000 tent trailers is unfilled in North America. I suspect it would be easier sell about a hundred of these than to sell 10,000 of a well-made conventional design at half the price. It is just cool enough for the folks who wear a $10,000 wrist watch that talks to their $400 phone.
I've been looking at tent trailers (as opposed to pop ups) and the Sylvan has caught my eye previously. I have to weigh the modern styling and Kelty branding against the experience proven Livin Lite QuickSilver line, most models being a lot less dependent on site selection being fully supported from the trailer box. Most places I go, the trailer would end up on a RV pad, not in a grassy location where I could pull out tent extensions and stake them down.
Disappointed that the Scarab link goes to a dead end, the inflating tent concept sounds interesting. - the picture link at the bottom of the news article has 25 other photos
most are quite different from the one above and more conventional in appearance - Might be an adventure camping in the wind.
- I don't think I would want anything that light.
ALiner.com
A-Liners are fairly lightweight. I could only wish them to be large enough to contain a decent size bathroom, with a shower, and toilet. So they are to small for me to be comfortable. I like dry camping, away from any campground with facilities, and not considering a tree as my bathroom.
If I where to design trailers, I like the additional space of a slide out. Why not install them in the front and back? The trailer hitch area seems to be the designated propane tank location for travel trailers. Tanks can be located someplace else, and then the hitch area will be open, and a slide can be installed above that area. Small bed slides seem popular in the hybrid trailers, why not make a hard sided slide out bed in a trailer design, and have it slide 4' out of the back or front of the trailer? Why must all slides come out the side of the trailer?
Just some thoughts on how to design a trailer that is compact, for lightweight travel, but will expand when at the campground.
Fred.
