Thread: These can't be REAL?!

Originally Posted by Mamba334

I'll have my mechanic look at it for me when he installs my trailer hitch for me. I just really didn't want to waste my money here on installing a trailer hitch for it, if I can't safely do this. Now I'm being told a max tongue weight is 100 lbs? I don't know what all this is honestly. So now I need to look the boat up in question that I am buying to see it's weight, plus the trailer's weight that it comes with?

Remember, also, that you can "change" the tongue weight by shifting weight in the boat (more or less weight towards the transom). If you have a set of bathroom scales, you can set the trailer tongue on those and get a reasonable idea of tongue weight.

I have a 3rd wheel on the trailer (trailer tongue jack) so I really don't know what the tongue weight on my boat is. All I know is .... that if the tongue weight is TOO LIGHT, it can cause the trailer to swing back/forth (jackknifing) at speed. And you definitely DON'T want that going on !!

Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

Remember, also, that you can "change" the tongue weight by shifting weight in the boat (more or less weight towards the transom). If you have a set of bathroom scales, you can set the trailer tongue on those and get a reasonable idea of tongue weight.

I have a 3rd wheel on the trailer (trailer tongue jack) so I really don't know what the tongue weight on my boat is. All I know is .... that if the tongue weight is TOO LIGHT, it can cause the trailer to swing back/forth (jackknifing) at speed. And you definitely DON'T want that going on !!

Thanks! And that is smart (bathroom scales)