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2016 24rls we just purchased this fall. First travel trailer we've owned. Looking forward to seeing new sites and meeting new people!

This is a shot of my 17SB in one of its maiden year’s voyages.

Here is my 2018 Launch 27BHU.

Here is our 2018 Launch 27BHU.
We are really enjoying the bedroom and slide giving us more room. We upgraded from a smaller trailer and are really enjoying the new Launch!

Shots are from Chimney Rock, NC and Dillard, Ga.

Our first trip out was a nice weekend.

My rig

Nice 26 BHS. Mine does not have the roof ladder, wish it did. Hope you enjoy it as much as we are ours. Thanks for posting.

2017 26BHS... Purchased 4/2017. Fitting it out now, can't wait to use it!

Pat198991 wrote: ↑

January 10th, 2017, 3:04 am

Hey Guys,
Looking into buying a launch 17sb we currently have a Rockwood popup, and we tried of the whole pop up thing. The hybrid we are looking at has a side wall mounted a/c, does anyone else have this on there hybrid?. If so does it keep the rv cool with the tent ends. Also how do you guys like the launch and any issues or horror story's?
Thanks for any input

We had a 19ft hybrid with the two tent pop outs at each end. We had the roof AC and during the mid day sun, it worked hard to keep the trailer cool. Our hybrid did not have privacy curtains for the pop outs, so I made some. I attached them on ceiling tracks so that I could close off the tent pop outs during the mid day. That worked fantastic. Opened them up as the sun was going down. I purchased thermal-backed curtains from Walmart and made my own. They have lots of basic colors of these and are quite reasonable. I went online and found some plastic tracks and hooks that I used to attach the curtains to the tracks. It was amazing how much of the heat from the tent pop outs was contained and kept from the main living space of the trailer. They also worked great for privacy of the sleeping areas. You might try this if the AC doesn't keep up with it.

I've attached a photo of a similar privacy curtain that I got my idea from. The curtains that I made did not have the mess at the top and were darkening, but the track was similar but dark brown instead of white.

I think where one lives and the time of the year will make a big difference. My 13500 roof top struggles in direct sunlight in the texas summer ... does great in the shade and at night. Clearly I don't have a wallmount just sharing my AC experience.