[Rhodes22-list] trailering

[Mary Lou Troy]

Jim,
We trailer with a 2000 Blazer, plain old Class III hitch. It's been 
adequate for the job. we towed it home from Edenton (long but flat) and tow 
a couple of times a year on I95 (flat). We take the motor and rudder off 
the boat and put them in the car when trailering. If we were towing all the 
time we would probably want something with a little more muscle. It seems 
to me that there has been some variation in rated towing capacity for the 
Blazers over the years but I'm not sure about the variables. I think our 
target tongue weight was somewhere around 250 - 300 lbs. We only measured 
it once back when we got the boat in 1998 and we were towing with our 1989 
Blazer.

Mary Lou
1991 Rhodes 22 Fretless
Swan Creek, MD / Ft. Washington, PA


At 08:52 PM 8/18/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Do those of you who trailer the R-22 using a Chevy Blazer (small / S-10
>size, not full-size/Tahoe) use a weight-carrying hitch or a
>weight-distributing hitch?  I ask because a close reading of my owner's
>manual seems to indicate that the weight-carrying receiver hitch maxes out
>at 4000 LB trailer weight and 400 lb tongue weight, rather than 5000 & 500
>LB I thought.
>
>Jim Connolly
>s/v Inisheer
>
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