I have to tow as my oh cannot drive for medical reasons. I was nervous to start with but it isn't as hard as you imagine. Going backwards is the hardest - going in a straight line backwards takes practice! It is counter intuitive and worth studying before you do it - there is a cute little programme online somewhere but I've lost it! I can reverse now fairly accurately - I find it hard to imagine where the back of the trailer is and when to start to turn - but I guess I could get out and have a look. It is worth learning to reverse as otherwise you will one day go the wrong way and not be able to! Better to learn when relaxed! The first time I tried to turn, i had gone the wrong way and saw a big yard to turn in - didn't realise the big yard was a fire station until the blue lights started flashing (woops!)
My wife drove our TT with ease she was a little more reluctant to drive the Pennine but has just done so and will share the driving on our french holiday
i tow a small trailer and fine it easy. only thing is i cant reverse so OH usually unhiches if necessary. also i have no choice cos e cant drive... YET!!!! (starts driving lessons next week)
We went to the C&CC show at the NEC, and outside there was an instructor showing all the aspects of towing and reversing.with hands on experience. It was very interesting and i learned a lot, it's a while ago now ,but i do believe it was free.
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dead horse
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donkey buyer
I have returned to towing after 29 years and thoroughly enjoy it. At the moment OH tows to the site and I tow home. Thats cos he's usless at navigation and I have to do it all but on way home I just reverse the route. Previously he towed there and back and I drove all the time we were away.
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I towed our Cabanon Saturn this year.
We only got it in June and I was really nervous, when we first pulled away I said to my husband "Wow, it just follows the car" which sounds stupid, but it really is that simple. I though I would have to take bends carefully etc, but it was fine..... Dreadful at reversing it, but then hubbie, Vonfluff is just as bad!!!
We do the hitching, unhitching between us.
Good luck.
Lindsy x
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Lower Lacon
Beechwood, Yorks
Black Horse Farm, Folkestone
I'le D'Offard, Saumur
I have to tow as OH refuses to drive my LHD camper van (his company car doesn't have a tow bar). I have only done it 4 times, but found the actual towing really easy. However, as someone posted previously, its the reversing thats tricky as I found out when we went away for the BH weekend. Had to reverse out of the campsite reception carpark and thought I was doing really well until I heard a sickening crunch and realised I had turned too tight and put my bumper through the storage box. That sickened my happiness for a while! However, I went to a nearby garden centre with a big empty car park on the way home and got my brother-in-law who we were on holiday with to guide me through the process. I still wouldn't reverse given the choice though!
I've towed a caravan down to Cornwall,from Yorkshire, with my husband navigating! I have also towed our trailer, full of tenting gear. I must add, this is with 2 boys bickering and fighting in the back of the car!! I find it really easy. The first time i towed the caravan, was to York a few years ago. We like to stay on small family run sites, and the owner came out and told me to keep the caravan hitched to park it. I just panicked! I told him that it was the first time i'd towed a caravan, and that i'd never reverse parked a cravan before. He gave me a lesson there and then! He just said that the simple rule is, take it slow and turn the steering wheel the opposite way to which way you want the caravan to go. He gave me 10 out of 10, and said in all the years that he's ran caravan sites, that was the best near on perfect parking he's ever seen, because i didn't rush the job! I was so proud, i think i told all the neighbours that i had reverse parked the caravan, with a little guidence from the owner of the site!!
My only problem with towing, is worrying if i took the wrong turning, and i can't find anywhere to turn the caravan round! But, as my hubby always tell me, you can never get lost, just as long as you have a good old (new!!) trusty map with you!!
Happy camping!! Good luck with towing!!
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Topic: Do any of you women tow?
