2026 Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite241BHS

The Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite 241BHS leaves Coachmen's factory at 5,874 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 7,752 lbs and 1,878 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 24% of the loaded rating, and cargo capacity is what remains for fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory. Fresh water alone is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling this trailer's 50-gallon fresh tank spends 415 lbs of that 1,878 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Tongue weight is 752 lbs, or 13% of the dry weight. Ten to fifteen percent is the conventional band for a bumper-pull trailer, and this plan sits inside it as published. Tongue weight is not fixed: it moves with how the trailer is loaded, and weight added ahead of the axles raises it. A weight-distribution hitch is the normal fitment at this tongue load, and the tow vehicle's tongue-weight limit is a separate number from its trailer-weight limit.

Tank capacities are 50 gallons fresh, 35 grey and 35 black, 70 gallons of waste capacity against 50 gallons of supply. The ratio is what governs how long the trailer can sit off hookups: waste capacity exceeds fresh, so the fresh tank is the binding constraint and refilling extends the stay. Coachmen publishes these three figures per floorplan, and they are the factory's numbers rather than a segment average.

Against the rest of the Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite roster this is the 2nd of 5 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 5,772 lbs to 7,304 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight. Comparing floorplans inside one line is more reliable than comparing across brands, because every figure here comes from the same factory channel on the same day.

A useful way to read the pair of weights is to stop planning against the dry figure. Nobody tows a trailer at 5,874 lbs: that is the weight before water, batteries, propane, bedding, food, tools and anything the dealer bolted on. Load half the published cargo capacity, which is modest for a family trip, and this plan is already near 6,813 lbs on the road. Compare that number against the tow vehicle, not the dry weight, and leave margin on top of it - the published GVWR of 7,752 lbs is a limit rather than a target.

Every number above was read from one factory document: Coachmen's own 2026 brochure for this line, and each figure was read back against that document's text before it was published. This is a single-channel record rather than the two-page cross-check this site runs on saved factory web pages, and it is described that way rather than dressed up as more. Dry weight plus cargo capacity also equals the published GVWR exactly, which is the arithmetic check this site runs on every profiled floorplan. Where a figure is missing from this page it is because the brochure does not publish it, not because it was hard to find - and the row says so rather than being quietly dropped.

Coachmen publishes no floorplan description for this plan in the channel this page is built from - only the numeric specification block. Rather than describe a layout from the floorplan code, which would be a guess dressed as a fact, this page carries what the factory publishes and says where it stops. 241BHS is a Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 241BHS differs from the other five Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite floorplans. Most distinctive first. Each rank counts only the siblings that publish that field, and a figure most of them share is left out.

• Length, 28 ft: shortest of six; next is the 242BARV (28 ft 10 in).
• Cargo capacity, 1,878 lb: second-largest of five, between the 242BARV (1,828 lb) and the 293RLDS (2,314 lb).
• GVWR, 7,752 lb: third-lowest of five, between the 244RBS (7,654 lb) and the 291TBSS (7,980 lb).
• Tongue weight, 752 lb: third-lightest of five, between the 242BARV (740 lb) and the 293RLDS (818 lb).
• Grey tank, 35 gal: smallest of six, level with the 242BARV and 291TBSS; next are the 244RBS, 246BARV and 293RLDS (70 gal).

Next to the 242BARV, the nearest longer floorplan by length, the 241BHS has a GVWR 152 lb higher, has 50 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 12 lb heavier and is 10 in shorter; the two publish the same fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

The 241BHS is the sixth floorplan in Coachmen's 2026 Apex Ultra-Lite table and the lightest of the six by unloaded weight. The other five have had pages on this site since the line was first profiled from Coachmen's floorplan web pages; this one is added from the brochure, where dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published GVWR exactly.

A full 50-gallon fresh tank is about 417 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 22% of the 241BHS’s 1,878 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,461 lb. Across 5 Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite floorplans the water share runs 18% to 38%, and 3 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite 293RLDS at 18% and Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite 242BARV at 23%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).

Closest sibling: the Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite 242BARV, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 5 of the 8 fields both publish (this plan first): length 28 ft 0 in vs 28 ft 10 in; dry weight 5,874 lb vs 5,772 lb; GVWR 7,752 lb vs 7,600 lb; cargo capacity 1,878 lb vs 1,828 lb; hitch weight 752 lb vs 740 lb. They match on fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Either side of it by GVWR: Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite 244RBS is 98 lb lighter (7,654 lb GVWR); Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite 291TBSS is 228 lb heavier (7,980 lb GVWR).

All 6 Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite floorplans: Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite line hub.

Against the 241BHS: the Jay Flight 295BHS is 2 lb lighter and 6 ft longer; the Cherokee Grey Wolf 26KF is 3 lb heavier and 5 ft longer; the Ozark 2430RBK is 3 lb heavier and 2 ft shorter.

11 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 241BHS. Not published: interior height, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, refrigerator, air conditioning.

Sourcing rules: methodology.