Tongue weight is crucial when towing a trailer, significantly affecting vehicle control. Insufficient tongue weight can lead to dangerous swaying while driving.

To measure tongue weight, consider using a hitch with a built-in scale or visit a scale and unhook your trailer from your vehicle to ensure only the coupler's weight is measured. The ideal tongue weight ranges from 10% to 15% of the trailer's total weight, including its contents.

For example, if your boat and trailer together weigh 4,500lbs, aim for a tongue weight between 450lbs and 675lbs.

Adjusting axle position can help achieve proper tongue weight. Moving axles back increases tongue weight, while moving them forward decreases it. At Marlon, we collaborated with our supplier KARAVAN to develop an extrusion for our aluminum I-beam boat trailers, facilitating axle adjustments without the extensive drilling or modifications that some of our competitors' trailers require.

Our trailers feature bolt-on axles and cross members, easily adjustable within the I-beam extrusion for optimal performance and strength.