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I couldn't decide if this belonged in the towing forum or Horizon, but I picked Horizon to narrow opinions to owners of this boat. I never got around to putting my trailer on a scale. Does anyone know the tongue weight for a 2015 H180 OB with a steel OEM Four Winns trailer? If you have a slightly different year, that's ok, please let me know.

Note: I'm not looking for what the tongue weight should be for ideal towing, I'm looking for what it actually is.

Thank you.

I don't have the actual tongue weight, and we don't have a H-180 in stock to go check. But since you mentioned not having a chance to put your trailer on a scale - the published weight of a single axle factory galvanized trailer for a H-180 is 861 pounds (with a spare tire).

I meant that I have not put the trailer tongue on a scale. Sorry I should have been more specific. Also, thanks for posting the weight but I don't have a galvanized trailer as you wrote, I have the steel OEM Four Winns trailer (as I wrote).

A previous post on this topic estimated tongue weight to be around 200 lbs....the more accurate estimate puts ideal tongue weight at 10 percent of load....that would put the number around 250 to 275ish.

Mine is a h210 but tandem so hard to compare as tandem would even it out. I will say mine squatted the 1500 RAM 4x4 until I got bags on the truck. I estimate mine to be around 350ish.

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08' H210SS
VP 5.7Gi

From the FW manual for H series:

Four Winns trailers are designed with tongue weights
between 7% and 11% of the total weight of the boat,
fuel, gear and trailer.

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That would probably put me somewhere between 210 lbs and 330 lbs, but that's a pretty wide range and I'm trying to narrow it down more. I guess I'll just have to wait until I'm back at my boat to measure it with a bathroom scale. Thanks.

This thing is amazing 35 bucks... was on sale last week so you could probably go in and ask for the sale price.
https://www.princessauto.com/en/detail/ ... -p8686024e
bought it but haven't weighed my boat and trailer yet...its in the water i'll tell you in November when i take it out hahaha

You can use something as simple as a bathroom scale to figure out the tongue weight:

https://www.etrailer.com/faq-how-to-det ... eight.aspx

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