What do you tow with? I always picture France with only small cars. Obviously that's not the only choice, but I'm just curious as to the towing options you do have.
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What do you tow with? I always picture France with only small cars. Obviously that's not the only choice, but I'm just curious as to the towing options you do have.
To Bring back the boat to home I used my company's truck, it's a 2010 VW Crafter, TDI 136hp. Enough for towing, but I seriously doubt it can pull out the boat from water.
I had 2 jeep Grand Cherokee ZJ v8 to towe my last boats. They were both LPG equipped. I will look at one other if I burn the Crafter's clutch.
Most of towing cars here in France are big turbo diesel sedan, like BMW, Mercedes, small and big 4x4. Pickup are not popular here, comes with small anemic diesel engines and are expensive.
I'm definetly not born in the good country ;)
The x35 is a monster and the 8.1 (496)a beast on gas but it is multi port fuel injected. Your 454 is smaller (7.4) but carburated and less efficient. Your boat is lighter I believe so I would guess its going to use a little less LPH but not much. I bet your going to see 28-30LPH at best but it all depends on ballast and I hope I'm wrong and you do see less than 25.
Ok we'll see. I will start to ride it arround April, so I have time to worry about fuel consumption ;)
I plan to put it out of water tomorrow, wash and winterize it. I will take many pics of it to share here.
Good weekend to everyone
Stephane
Oh by the way.....welcome to the forum :)
Thanks Doug :)
One question : Does anyone entirely remove the fixed plate flap and see any difference in the wake size ?
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I would leave it on, just adjust it upwads a bit.
But on a different note, good god is that trailer sketchy. I get uneasy when my comp is a few inches unloaded......
No prop guard on any model of trailer here. Don't worry, it's really like that we tow boats in France. Every trailer look like that. With a removable light ramp instead of prop guard.
I agree it looks awful, but it's solid and stable. Even a brand new boat will be sold with this kind of trailer.
Take a look on this link :
http://www.leboncoin.fr/nautisme/248800553.htm?ca=12_s
Obviously what you say is true, but why is it this way? What is the reasoning for not supporting the last couple feet of the boat? Is it different for a stern drive boat? I could see someone making an arguement for a center mounted engine, but in a v drive or stern drive, this is where all you weight is. Just curious about the purpose of a shortie trailer.