Weight of a Telstar 28
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 5:27 pm
What would the real world weight be of a typically rigged out Telstar 28 with say a 20 hp Honda. (No passengers, tanks empty.)
Thanks
Tommyboy
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Tommyboy
I weighed the empty trailer and the trailer/boat (20hp Honda) in 2008 on a certified truck scale when I brought it down to Florida. It's significantly heavier than the specs, but ALL boats are heavier than the factories think they are. The empty trailer axles were about 1760 pounds with another 200 or so on the hitch. Figure about 1950 pounds for the heavily modified trailer. These numbers jump up to 6100 on the trailer plus about 500 on the hitch, giving us a 6600 pound combined weight. So the nearly empty boat weighs around 4600 pounds. I recall that the factory number was more like 3200 pounds, about 1400 pounds off. But I've seen much worse - had a 40 foot Catalina that was about 4000 pounds over. And it was just about stripped for racing. I've been on some which were over 5,000 pounds heavier.
We're getting more boat for our money??