Choosing a boat that can safely be towed

[Newjeepowner]

We have a 2022 jeep gladiator overland. I believe its towing capacity is 4500lbs. We are looking at boats and they are ranging in weight from 3000-4000 lbs total. Should we be looking smaller or is this a safe weight range? We will need to tow it twice a year just over 100 miles from our home to our beach place.

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[Ogre_FL]

If you truly will only be trailering 2 times a year, I would feel comfortable with being at the high end of the trucks rating.
Take your time, drive very conservatively.
Take a separate vehicle or 2 trips if you also have lots of stuff to bring too.

I also used to trailer a 24' sailboat to/from the harbor twice a year with a Suzuki Samurai, so I may not be the best person to offer advise.

 

[Labswine]

Okay, first off, your Overland...if it has the 8sp Auto and tow package...has a towing capacity of 6,000 lbs. The range of boat weights you're looking at will easily be handled by it.

Way back when, I had a '93 and subsequent '96 Grand Cherokee, both with the I-6, NO factory trailer package (hitch was a U-Haul add on) that I towed a 1985 21.5' Larson DC215 (it had a 350 cu.in. V-8 in it) that was 5,000 lbs on the trailer, then add in the weight of the dual axle trailer and neither Grand Cherokee had an issue towing it. I also had (in between the Grands) a '96 RAM 4x4 Extra cab with the 5.2L V-8 in it and it had all sorts of problems pulling that boat. One trip from Southern MA to Lake Winnepesaukee and back blew the trans in the RAM. In my Jeeps, I could walk the boat out of the water in 2H. I had to go to 4Lo in the RAM to get that boat up any ramp.

You should be fine looking in the range you're looking in.

 

[just_another_guy]

You'll be fine towing a boat in that range, but I wouldn't go much heavier than that.

 

[Jefe1018]

Get a brake controller, keep distance and be patient. You should be fine. I towed mine in that range from Vegas to Houston and back two winters ago.

 

[Rahkmalla]

Post window sticker and we'll tell you the tow cap. 4500, 6000, and 6500 are possibilities.

 

[Rusty PW]

Why does this come to mind?

 

[Rusty PW]

Toss this one in for shits and giggles.

 

[punk'n]

Toss this one in for shits and giggles.

Reminds me of the overpowered F13 we had. It was a blast flying past the big boy boats and watching their jaws drop.

 

[Jaxmax]

Whatever you get tow it to the beach with as little gas as possible, saves some weight.....Jack

 

[Rusty PW]

Reminds me of the overpowered F13 we had. It was a blast flying past the big boy boats and watching their jaws drop.

A guy I worked with years ago had one. It was a neat little boat. Fast for it's size.

 

[Gmac03]

That’s a 19ft’r, I’d be happy pulling the new 22ft’r but after that the beam will be too wide for me to see anything behind me even if I ran extended mirrors. The Gladiator is just too narrow to tow the larger boats on the regular.

Can’t wait for boat season. ?

Good luck ?

 

[Camaroboi13]

Toss this one in for shits and giggles.

That’s far too much weight for that car

 

[Gladiator832]

What kind of boat are you talking about?

 

[Cape taco12]

We have a 2022 jeep gladiator overland. I believe its towing capacity is 4500lbs. We are looking at boats and they are ranging in weight from 3000-4000 lbs total. Should we be looking smaller or is this a safe weight range? We will need to tow it twice a year just over 100 miles from our home to our beach place.

I tow a 3000# boat on a double axle trailer that probably weighs 1200#. I have electric brakes (trailer does not get wet as boat is gantry launched.) I keep it at 50mph or less on the highway as I get a ton of windage it’s 26ft long and close to 11ft high. Truck tows decently not a lot of power on takeoff, but I have the 6spd. It stops fine even if the brakes are turned way down. I did about 260 miles in towing this year between maintenance and race events. Assuming you get a trailer in good condition and take it slow I wouldn’t worry about it.

I can’t speak to having that much weight on a wet boat ramp however.

I am more concerned about hitting expansion joints/potholes and damaging the boat by bouncing it on the trailer or hitting tree branches than anything to do with the truck. I avoid trailering it anywhere I don’t need to in order to protect the boat. Storing it at the beach place not an option?

AtJ/80 worlds in Newport

No doors on the way for a new bottom.

Jeep is great for beach launching the whaler I restored

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