Bigplumbs
Well-known member
I have asked this question several times and got very similar answers. Currently I have a Disco 2 and a Disco 3 and I tow various boats, a 3.4 m Rib a 4.5 m Rib, a 16 foot fletcher, a 17 foot Fletcher and a 19 foot Fletcher and I also have a 24.5 foot Sealine S24 which I was hoping to tow but I have sort of chickened out. With the 19 footer it is fine once on the road but so many slipways are down little roads that are difficult to access. I regularly take the 17 foot Fletcher to Brixham and launch on the slip there. Lovely slip but access is not good and on Brixfest weekend it is interesting.
As I travel about in the summer which I do quite a lot I look for 24 foot size boats being towed and I see very few (almost none) and this sort of answered the questions for me. Cars like the Disco will easily pull such a boat but it is the stress associated with it that puts me off. Even if you maintain your trailer well and many don't it is still a constant worry as you go along.
The other thing I would say that up to 17 foot if you get in a muddle you can unhitch and move the boat yourself a little bit. Once you get much bigger than 17 foot this is almost impossible.
The days I move my 19 footer (Fletcher Sportscruiser GTS) from home to mooring I certainly dread and both me and her indoors are quite stressed
For me the max I would like to tow is about 22 foot that extra to 24 odd is quite a lot.
Dennis
This is my 19 footer hitched up on purchase journey home from Wales to Near Ipswich..... Quite a Journey
As I travel about in the summer which I do quite a lot I look for 24 foot size boats being towed and I see very few (almost none) and this sort of answered the questions for me. Cars like the Disco will easily pull such a boat but it is the stress associated with it that puts me off. Even if you maintain your trailer well and many don't it is still a constant worry as you go along.
The other thing I would say that up to 17 foot if you get in a muddle you can unhitch and move the boat yourself a little bit. Once you get much bigger than 17 foot this is almost impossible.
The days I move my 19 footer (Fletcher Sportscruiser GTS) from home to mooring I certainly dread and both me and her indoors are quite stressed
For me the max I would like to tow is about 22 foot that extra to 24 odd is quite a lot.
Dennis
This is my 19 footer hitched up on purchase journey home from Wales to Near Ipswich..... Quite a Journey
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