Can a 2020 CRV AWD tow a Crestliner 1650 SE WT

[Fishing in Sonoma]

I am considering buying a new Crestliner 1650 SE WT and it has boat weight is 1,185lb. The CRV has a tow rating of 1500 lb. Anyone out there own a Crestliner and tows with CRV and can share some of their experience. Thank!

 

[GA_Boater]

Welcome.

Does the 1185 pounds include the trailer, motor, fuel and gear? You only have 315 pounds to play with.

 

[Fishing in Sonoma]

Thanks, that answers a lot of questions.

 

[roscoe]

Your 1185 is dry weight.
Plus:
gear
gas
batteries
trailer

Puts you over 1800#

CRV requires brakes on any trailer over 1000#.

 

[jbcurt00]

Also need to check your max weight rating. My Kia is rated at 3500lbs but thats all in w EVERYTHING in the car too, except the driver. So w a passenger in your CRV, that 315lbs is even less..

 

[Fishing in Sonoma]

Thanks, CRV AWD is rated to tow 1500 lb but now I realizes that my choices for bass boat is limited to just a few options. I want one with a steering wheel so probably a bass tracker.

 

[mike_i]

Also you need to know if the vehicle would stop all of that weight, especially in a panic stop.

 

[Scott Danforth]

The CRV isnt a good tow vehicle for anything except a really small utility trailer

Its a rebodied civic and its a short wheel base vehicle

For your 1800# plus woth of boat, I would get a different tow vehicle

 

[Fishing in Sonoma]

The CRV isnt a good tow vehicle for anything except a really small utility trailer

Its a rebodied civic and its a short wheel base vehicle

For your 1800# plus woth of boat, I would get a different tow vehicle

I just bought it in August, it's a 2020 CRV EX AWD so I think it will be fine for a smaller, lighter boat. I am going to have Honda install Honda hitch plus transmission cooler, so I think as long as I can get a lighter boat/trailer, should be fine. Thanks!

 

[Jazw33]

I tow boats, campers, utility trailers. Short wheel base vehicles are not good for towing anything except a small popup camper or a small utility trailer. If you have factory tow- I go no more than half of the factory list (that's just my personal rule of thumb). If you have added a tow package you have less towing ability than if factory installed. Does the vehicle have a transmission cooler? My Ford can tow 9,000 lbs, my heaviest toy is the Cabrio at 4200 lbs. Very comfortable towing and more importantly-- stopping! My step dad taught me don't ask "Can I tow it?"... ask "Can I stop it!"

 

[Scott Danforth]

I just bought it in August, it's a 2020 CRV EX AWD so I think it will be fine for a smaller, lighter boat. I am going to have Honda install Honda hitch plus transmission cooler, so I think as long as I can get a lighter boat/trailer, should be fine. Thanks!

Ok, so start with the full tow weight of 1500# and set realistic expectations of what you can buy

A 14 foot utility boat with a trailer, 15 hp motor, 12 gallons of fuel, battery, depth finder, oars, 2 anchors and moderate fishing gear gear is about 1500#. I know, because I recently weighed the fishing barge

That means tiller steering, no steering wheel, minimum fuel, and setting your expectations

My trailer weighs 375# after I stripped off the wooden walking planks (for launching and not getting wet) and removed the spare tire. With the walking plank, spare tire, and guides, its 465#. The outboard weighs 110, the fuel tank and hose 120#, 70# of wiring, battery, lights and electronics. Hull weighs about 600#, two anchors and rope just under 100#, with 25# for oars, and #100# of fishing gear and PFDs

Add a cooler of liquid fishing enhancer and ice and you are way over your towing capacity

Use this as a guide to determine what you can buy to tow behind your CRV

 

[Fishing in Sonoma]

I am a senior and no, I want a steering wheel. I have been looking and I believe there is a bass boat, motor and trailer out there for me.

 

[ahicks]

I pull a 96 17' Alum. Polar Craft w/side console and 50hp Honda (similar in size and weight to a Tracker ) all over with a '10 CRV and have for years now. Not something I would want to cross country or spend a lot of time in the mountains with, but for traveling within 100 miles it's been working great. Solid handling (you don't realize there's a boat in back of you), no trouble braking, maintaining 70mph over hills is done without downshifting or very little at most, and no trouble on any of the boat landings I've been at. I'd consider it a great little package.

That's me though. I've been pulling trailers all over creation for a very long time. The boat is NEVER loaded with much more than a battery, 6 gal. of gas, and a couple pounds of fishing gear. Cooler, if there is one, goes in the car.

Naysayers be damned.....

Edit, On further thought, my car has a 6 speed automatic. If the 2020 subject car has a constant speed tranny, my confidence in it's towing ability would not be nearly as high. I have NO experience with them. -Al

 

[briangcc]

For giggles, I checked Tracker's website. The Grizzly series, 1648 SC (single console NOT a walkthrough) comes in at an average weight of 1395. That would be boat, motor, trailer. Now start adding gas, battery, safety gear, and spare tire as you do not want to be that guy/gal on the side of the road with a flat with no spare, etc. You're over your tow rating on your CRV.

I really would heed the advice above about the CRV not being the choice vehicle for your particular setup. Its not just that its over limit, but think of it in terms of steering. For max steering effort on your tow vehicle, your front end needs to be planted. As you add tongue weight, to avoid trailer sway, you are lifting the front end of your CRV up in the air taking away some of your steering ability.

We're not advising you go out and buy a Ford/Chevy/Dodge 1/2ton pickup to pull this load but rather you may want to look at a larger SUV and not a CUV to tow with if having a console boat is your end goal. There are plenty of mid sized SUV's out there that are more than up to the task....Toyota Highlander, Dodge Durango, Nissan Pathfinder, Chevy Traverse (make sure it has the tow package), just to name a few.

**My cousin tows his 17' Sylvan WT w/70HP Yamaha with his Highlander. My uncle tows his 17' Sylvan with his Traverse.

 

[ahicks]

For giggles, I checked Tracker's website. The Grizzly series, 1648 SC (single console NOT a walkthrough) comes in at an average weight of 1395. That would be boat, motor, trailer. Now start adding gas, battery, safety gear, and spare tire as you do not want to be that guy/gal on the side of the road with a flat with no spare, etc. You're over your tow rating on your CRV.

I really would heed the advice above about the CRV not being the choice vehicle for your particular setup. Its not just that its over limit, but think of it in terms of steering. For max steering effort on your tow vehicle, your front end needs to be planted. As you add tongue weight, to avoid trailer sway, you are lifting the front end of your CRV up in the air taking away some of your steering ability.

We're not advising you go out and buy a Ford/Chevy/Dodge 1/2ton pickup to pull this load but rather you may want to look at a larger SUV and not a CUV to tow with if having a console boat is your end goal. There are plenty of mid sized SUV's out there that are more than up to the task....Toyota Highlander, Dodge Durango, Nissan Pathfinder, Chevy Traverse (make sure it has the tow package), just to name a few.

**My cousin tows his 17' Sylvan WT w/70HP Yamaha with his Highlander. My uncle tows his 17' Sylvan with his Traverse.

On the bold, oh please. Reality check time. The tongue weight of a properly set up boat like this could be compared to a load of groceries.....

I would ask that you go stand next to a newer CRV to get a better idea of it's size.

 

[briangcc]

I have. They're rinky dink CUV's. Great grocery getters, not something I would tow with.

 

[ahicks]

I have. They're rinky dink CUV's. Great grocery getters, not something I would tow with.

We're all entitled to our opinions. It's too bad more aren't based on actual experience...

 

[roscoe]

Well, my actual experience was with a new 4500# 2016 tow vehicle rated to tow 3500#.
I was towing 2000# with 500# of humans inside the tow vehicle.
Coming down a hill in a tourist town, 25mph, crosswalk full of people at the bottom of the hill.
Could NOT stop. Luckily the road cleared and no one was hit.

$650 was spent on trailer brakes when I got home.

You need brakes on your trailer behind a crv.

 

[Fishing in Sonoma]

I appreciate all the advice and I am keeping the 2020 CRV AWD and looking for smaller lighter boat, like a Lowe Skorpion 1600 or Crestliner 1600 Storm, boats are both 610 dry hull and contacting for total boat, outboard and trailer weight. I understand there is additional weight of gas, batteries, electric motor and gear. I am a senior that likes his CRV and it's nuts to sell it after less than a year and I will research and find a appropriate bass boat. If you have any suggestions on boats, that would be great. I don't plan on towing boat very far, less than 20 minutes on average and maybe an hour plus a little at the most, the rivers I will mainly fish are close. Thanks you!

 

[TheSeaPickle]

X2 on making sure the trailer has brakes or at least add them once you get it. I'm doubting the crv has any type of tow/haul mode so no engine braking might be an issue coming down long hills with the extra weight. Otherwise pulling it around you should have no problem with one of those lighter 16-17' boats