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Originally Posted by Bret
So Trayson do you think your Honda Ridgeline can tow the Moomba or do you think you will get a new tow vehicle in the spring. Cause I just looked on the moomba website at the old owners manuals and it says both the boat and trailer together weigh 4700 then you add on 280 pounds for gas and the 120 pounds for the batteries and you will be at probably 5100 pounds so you will be at about 100 pounds over the towing capacity of the ridgeline.
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I'm gonna be at the limit, yes. But there are a couple XLV owners on the Moomba forums that tow their XLV's with a ridgeline and they said it does well.
I took my Supra Sunsport through the truck scales and my sunsport on the trailer weighed in at 5,100 pounds with a tongue weight of ~300 pounds. (the Ridgeline has a max tongue weight spec of 600). The vast majority of the time, we tow 15 minutes to the ramp. The one trip we did longer, we went up and over Mount Hood and many passes in the high dessert of Oregon. I was able to pull at 40-45mph if I kept the RPMs at a conservative level going up the passes and if I wanted to really rev it up, I could do 55-60mph. I only got 8-9mpg overall though. Stopping seemed decent enough, and the new XLV has 4 disc brakes on the trailer (compared the the drums on the Supra), so that will help.
The Ridgeline is the Wife's vehicle and it's just not in the cards for her to change to something different. She loves it and we have no desire to have a big full sized truck.
For Labor Day we did a long trip and we used the Ridgeline to tow our little 2500 pound camping trailer and had my friend in his Dodge Cummings diesel tow the boat. Honestly, I'd rather throw down on a small class C motorhome to tow the boat with on long camping trips than get a truck.
It's possible we'll end up adding some of the Firestone Coil-Rite airbags to the rear if needed though.