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[dkoldman]

Originally Posted by 16ACE27

No, you have a major misconception of what GROSS Vehicle Weight RATING is.

You believe it to be empty curb weight or unloaded weight. GMC and MJC62 should have set you straight.

Yes that is what I missed an they have clarified "empty curb weight" is what was missing. I can only go by what I read because the rest I don't know, thus my probing for information.

I don't know how to simplify my thinking that I could pull my 5,000 lb fully loaded boat and trailer with an RV with hitch rated at 8,000 as slam dunk? I learned that hitch rating is not the same as what may be available to tow for combined weight.

Yes it would have been simpler for me if Thor listed the "empty curb weight" so I could calculate the balance of 23,000 lbs available.

As it is until someone can offer up the "empty curb weight" for a 27b I have to make an assumption that my RV will weight exactly 18,000 lbs fully loaded with my wife and cooler full of beers (I will add extra ice since the 18,000 is Weighted Rated That would leave me 5,000 lbs for boat and trailer and that would work. Especially if I have a few hundred pounds to play with. FWIW, I can calculate the weights for everything that I would load. Just seems like with all of the fancy ratings, they would now how much the RV weighs off the mfg floor and with the assumptive full load of gas , water, propane, and holding tanks.

I also follow that It is best to go get the weight at scale but I can't do that until I buy an RV. My point, is that I don't want to buy an RV where I can't safely pull my boat. It is a reason I own a boat already. I have never gone camping anywhere where a lake / river was not nearby. I am just taken by surprise that it is even a question, and can be so close to being over limit. 6.8L Triton V10!!!