Truck camper and towing
Good morning, I have a 2012 ram 3500 mega cab srw. I am looking at either a northern lite 8.11 or an arctic fox 865 both units 2023. I’m looking for advice on tow setups. Manufacturers don’t seem to...
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mkirsch wrote:Grit dog wrote:
^If it’s a v nose boat or v nose trailer. OP didn’t say.
OP said it was a "Nautique" which even if you don't want to bother googling it, combined with the stated 350lb tongue weight and 6200lb trailer weight, safe to assume it's a boat.
Frankly I'm surprised there was no finger-wagging over the ~5% tongue weight.
And probably a v nose based on the lighter tongue weight. I’m quite familiar with Nautique boats. And if you’d read or quoted my next sentence I was specifically comparing v nose boats to what’s slang referred to as pickle forks (after race boats).
The biggest applicable differences being v nose is typically lighter tongue weight due to less weight of fiberglass in the front and a v nose apples to apples with the same setback from the hitch ball will turn sharper with less hitch extension and a pickle fork boat will weigh more up front and hit the back of the camper sooner.
No googling needed. But you must be in the “Do you even own a boat, bro?” camp that ole Jimh is….
