Has anyone tried towing their C-dory this way?

I would like to know if you could buy a travel trailer(toy hauler) that could hold a 16ft cruiser and pull it backwards with your tow vehicle .I guess it would have to be about 25ft or so .when you get to your destination you pull out the 16ft cruiser and set up your toy hauler??
 
While going down the road today, I thought about this dilemma. Here's what I have come up with for a way to get an RV, daily driver, and a C-Dory all to one place at the same time...

Buy a motorhome with at least 10,000 pound towing capacity, in the shortest length possible, 34-35 foot diesel, perhaps. Get a smallish truck, like the Nissan Frontier. Set up the truck with a front tow bar to tow it behind the motorhome. You will now be limited to a smaller C-Dory, but I think the Frontier would handle a 22. Tow the boat behind the truck, hooked up to the motorhome.

35 foot of motorhome, plus 17 foot of truck (plus 3' of towbar), plus 25+ feet of boat on the trailer... you're at 80+ feet. :shock: This is going to be over the towing length in almost every state...

http://www.towingworld.com/articles/TowingLaws.htm

So, stay out of the west coast and east coast states, and you may go "un-noticed." If you need to shorten up, it's easy to unhook the truck with the boat hooked to that and drive separate.

Of course, you could try to find a shorter motorhome/truck conversion that still has the necessary towing capacity, and/or go with a shorter model C-Dory. Like most things, it's a compromise.

Then, there's the other option, if money is no object: a toter-home/big ass trailer combination...

http://www.truckconversion.net/

http://www.cowboycadillac.com/classa.htm

Add a BIG trailer that could accomodate a C-Dory on a trailer and a vehicle.

http://www.flyingamotorsports.com/

http://www.renegadedirect.com/

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lgb/rv ... 01715.html

Overkill, perhaps? Just an option.
 
Good Evening, Folks.

For Jenny Katz, no one makes a pure toy hauler (where there is furniture in the stored vehicle space inside the trailer) that is long enough for 22. You might find one that will clear a 16 including motor and tongue - est 20'?) Width might also be a problem for the 22 (8'-6"?) Weight would certainly rule the 22 out. At 4k+, the overall weight for the whole ensemble would be excessive. (est 15-18k)

Also, would you want to pull the boat trailer out of the bay or lake (pick one) and load that wet, dripping, maybe nasty or foul smelling thing into tonight's living space? Yuk :crook :disgust :cry

Jim, has a couple of good plans there. I had considered his first plan. I want to be in that sized coach anyway. The doubles would be doable w/ CDL endorsement here in Kahlifornia. W/ the 16 being the weapon of choice, the weight and length could be kept down. The MH to truck tow bar would have to be chosen carefully. One motorcycle could be put in the truck bed (long bed for the Strom). Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. :note

Toter w/ big a$$ trailer would definitely work if you want to give up the interior living space in the toter.

Regular Renegade style conversion + big a$$ trailer would work. Stand by for the cost $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. As was mentioned earlier,one could easily be in well over 350k new. Heck, for that matter, one could be in +350k just for the motorhome if one wanted to be hard core about it. :disgust :disgust :disgust

Compromise, compromise, compromise, Oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm
 
Where's your daily driver with that Dynamax conversion?
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That is the problem, unless you use the 32 foot Dynamax as the daily driver. I know some folks that went to Alaska with a 30 foot motor home without a dinghy, but you would be limited. Maybe a scooter on the front end?
 
Trailered boats get to be a problem. My Tom Cat is slightly over 38 feet on the trailer--plus hitch (equalizer)--the C Dory 25 plus 30 foot RV was right at 65 feet (maybe a little over)--Some opinions say that a car carrier and boat trailer will not count any part of the boat/car over the frame of the trailer.

I have talked to folks with 80 foot or more LOA--and they claim that no problems in all 48 lower. Cops tell me that they can cite you.

I didn't have any major problem single handing at ramps with the 25 and 30 foot RV (modified to tow the load)--such as Sequim, with the long rig/traction etc. The RV is heavy enough to give adequate traction.

Also used over the road tractors, even those with a 15 foot "sleeper"--are relitatively cheap, in comparison to the Toter Home types.
 
Also used over the road tractors, even those with a 15 foot "sleeper"--are relitatively cheap, in comparison to the Toter Home types.
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A commercial rig, (over the road tractor,) with a "condo" Especially if it was a cab over, might fit the bill. Lot worse ride though, than a conventional.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
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