Big Week(end)

[B can man]

Good point on the sea anchor. I do have a drift sock. The 120 idles pretty low as it is. With the "new gps", I plan to see what kind of speed it actually idles at. Perphaps it would only take a 5gal bucket off the back to do the trick... Just worried about fuel consumption and wear on the big motor. She ain't no spring chicken and I don't wanna use up the last of her while idling along.

I did hook the boat to the Durango today and was very very happy to see that it only squatted about three inches with the tongue full supported. Looks like she's a go! I did cheat a little before I actually hooked it up. I looked in the owner's manual and saw the pull rating for it was 5200lbs and max tongue weight was 15% of that. Some quick math in the head gave me around 800lbs max tongue weight. I was pretty confident then, as I was quite sure that my 2800lb rig did not put 800lbs on the tongue.

[troy1976]

the 5 gallon bucket idea is good on paper, but not so much in practice. use the drift socks instead...this is from personal experience. GOOD LUCK