What do you pull your boat with?

[Capt Sully]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

Silverado 4X4 Z71 1500 with tow package. Pulls good, use 4X4 on wet ramps

 

[mds47588]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

99% of the time I pull my 07 Larson 180 with this:

I only paid $1,200 for the truck it's proven itself over the last 18 months to be no less than 100% reliable. In fact, just this past weekend I made a 400 mile round-trip pulling the boat to Pensacola and back. As ugly as the outside is, the interior has been totally re-done. Even the A/C works (and cold too)

My other car is a 2006 Crown Victoria P71. While it does have a trailer hitch and pulls the boat fine around town...the truck does most of the pulling.

 

[coolguy147]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

Grand Marquis has been replaced with 2012 F150, 5.0 litre. I dont believe in any v6.

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Every grand marquis from like 1992.5 came with the 4.6L V8 engine until they ended the model line.

Even the old box bodies came with the 302 or 351 or something lol.

 

[Sylvester]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

Every grand marquis from like 1992.5 came with the 4.6L V8 engine until they ended the model line.

Even the old box bodies came with the 302 or 351 or something lol.

Perhaps I should make myself more clear. When I said I dont believe in v6, I was referring to the "ecoboost" engine on the new F150's, not my Grand Marquis. Of course I know my GM was v8, that's why I bought it.

Hope that clears things up for ya.

 

[Howard Sterndrive]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

I think there are 3 or 4 of us pulling cottage boats occasionally with panthers...

I put a trans cooler and upgraded brakes on my '06
however my main tow rig is a Boston Gear 30:1 with a Leeson farm duty 1.5HP motor, and Remote-all remote

 

[Boats-A-lots]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

I pull it with an urban assault vehicle.

 

[sm88730]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

i recently purchased a 2000 sea pro 190dc and towed it home with the wife's toyota 4runner with no issues...
took the boat out fishing with a freind and towed with my 1998 silverado 5.7 for the first time last week. just got the truck back after having the transmission rebuilt. oh well...
lookin forward to fishin this week

 

[JEBar]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

we tow our Sea Pro 180 DC with a 4-wheel drive 2011 Chevy Silverado 1500 with a 5.3 V8 and 6 speed automatic transmission .... the truck is rated to pull 9,700 lbs so towing our boat doesn't present it with much of a problem .... we seldom have to use 4-wheel drive to get the boat out of the water

Jim

 

[ronsealdeath]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

To save my Ford Estate we have purchased a Land Rover Discovery 300 TDI circa 1995. 2.5 diesel, permanent 4WD with difflocks and low range. Cost peanuts to buy and insure, tows the boat like its not there (17ft fishing boat with Merc 50hp) and I don't care if it rusts to bits with sea water ingress. The best part is using the low range in reverse to get the trailer up my steep driveway. You just let the clutch out at idle and she creeps up the drive ticking over, no throttle required. Saves the clutch on my normal car which would cost the price we paid for the Land Rover, to replace!
Al

 

[smoedog]

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05 Expedition plulling my 93 24' Aquapatio.

 

[RMNS1013]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

My 17' SeaPro with an 88hp Johnson pushes our new 6cly Honda Pilot pretty well. It's also is at home behind my 8cly Dodge Dakota. The Honda pulls smoother, but the gas mileage is much worse.

 

[ricohman]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

I pull it with an urban assault vehicle.

AKA a "mall terrain vehicle"

 

[muskyfins]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

Tow vehicle #1 (99% of the workload) Chevy 2500 Avalanche. 8.1 liter. 4.10 axles. Tow package, ram air and custome true dual exhaust. Current boat (20foot stingray) doesn't affect truck one bit. Even pulled a 36' car hauler with an F-250 plow truck and only marginally noticed she was back there. (except in the corners) Makes me giggle when people don't realize its a 2500.

Extreme duty rig (1% neccesary) 1997 F-350 Powerstroke with moded motor, 6" lift and 36" swampers. Can't find anything it won't tow and gets better mileage than the Avalanche.

 

[SwampChicken]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

I pull mine with an 08 Tundra. I love my truck and have never had any problems towing with it!

 

[RedMan1973]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

Everyone, meet "OX" she is always up to the task whether it is a cement truck, tractor, or my boat, she has pulled it.

 

[Xev]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

A little 1978 Toyota pickup
I'll trade it for Ox

 

[81_chapparel194]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

i have a 1981 chapparal 19 ft with a 90 hp outboard not sure of exact weight but i pull it with a 2008 dodge charger with a 3.5l ho v6. no issues and i have pulled it round trip 300 miles longest trip avg trip 160 roundtrip to lake and back. but also pull it with a 2008 dodge ram 4x2 quad cab with hemi no issues at all except for 10 miles to gallon while pulling boat

 

[fotto]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

I have a 2012 Xterra Pro-4X towing a 2007 FW Horizon 180 with 4.3L

 

[RedMan1973]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

A little 1978 Toyota pickup
I'll trade it for Ox

I just got rid of my 88 Toyota, loved that truck, in many ways wish I still had her but she lived her life very well. I had to send her to a junk yard as the salt had gotten to her some kinda bad.

 

[RedMan1973]

Re: What do you pull your boat with?

Some of my other Veh's that I have used to drag my boats

65 F100 Twin I Beam, my first Veh she pulled my dads 14' dura craft w/18 mercury

88 Toy, also used to drag the Dura Craft around

did not own a boat at the time, would rent from the local MWR boat rental