We're looking at the Scamp 13 and it looks like they released a Lite version this year - deletes the kitchen, water tank, and front window. Any thouhts on going this route? We were looking at tear-drops, but this might win out - standing room inside, affordable (some of the teardrops are WAY more money), and simple maintenance.
Concerns for us...
- Food storage. We'd have to keep using our big cooler - not a deal breaker, but maybe annoying (no real place to put it inside the trailer, I guess it would just go in the truck bed as it does today).
- No overhead cabinets - not sure there's enough enclosed storage for whatever items we want to leave in the trailer. That said, I doubt we'll use it for more than a week at a time, as we both work full-time for the foreseeable future. Will be mostly long weekends in the mid-Atlantic/Blue Ridge.
Looks like fully optioned, the Lite would be ~$20k+taxes (base price is $16). VS a Base at $27-$30+taxes?
Alistair
We have a '22 Scamp 13 with the front bunks. We ordered extra overhead bins, but honestly we really don't get that much use out of them because they're so small. We got things fixed to where it's safe to leave the bunks set up all the time, and use storage bins on the bottom bunk and put other stuff on the upper bunk. We rarely bother taking the rock shield off the front window--since it doesn't open, it offers light but no extra ventilation. The model with the front bath has no window there either. The big bed is a great feature. We don't cook inside, so missing the stove and sink would be no problem. Having the extra storage space from lack of water tank would probably more than make up for the lack of overhead storage. The more stuff that's missing from the standard Scamps, the more storage you gain.
I would miss the refrigerator, but I carry a freestanding 12v fridge anyway, and that's where most of our stuff goes. The built in fridge isn't really big enough to make that much of a difference.
We have the external shower and the on demand water heater--great for washing dishes, but we never use the inside water tank. It's just something you have to winterize.
Anyway, I suspect that had the Lite been available when we bought ours, we would probably have bought it.
Hope these rambling thoughts are of some value!
Dave