2026 Catalina 273DBHCK

The Catalina Legacy Edition 273DBHCK is a dual-entry family bunkhouse with a more finished feel than the metal-tier Summit plans. A front RV-queen master sits up front; rear double-over-double bunks fill the back; a large slide carries a trundle sofa and a U-shaped dinette; a living-room fireplace and a panoramic 10-foot slide window warm and brighten the main area; and dual entry doors let you come in through the rear full bath or the front living room. A standard outside camp kitchen with a cast-iron griddle and a mini refrigerator rounds it out, with nominal capacity of eight.

At 7,348 pounds unloaded and 33 feet 6 inches, the 273DBHCK is a comfortable half-ton tow with about 2,000 pounds of cargo capacity — a healthy payload for a fully-featured bunkhouse, and its 74-gallon grey tank is the largest of any plan on this page, useful for longer dry-camping stints. As a Legacy Edition it carries the upgrades that separate the tier from Summit: solid-surface kitchen counters, upgraded aluminum wheels and a porcelain toilet, on top of the line’s GE 10.7-cubic-foot 12V refrigerator, 60,000-BTU tankless water heater, GE 13,500-BTU heat-pump air conditioner, 35,000-BTU furnace and residential in-floor ducted heat. A 21-foot power awning with multicolor LED lighting is among the longest in the lineup.

Construction is the line’s metal-sided value build — a Norco powder-coated steel I-beam frame with full-length outriggers, a Platinum .024-inch aluminum exterior with a smooth radius front, a seamless Alpha roof membrane and an enclosed, fully sealed corrugated underbelly — with JBL Aura audio and a 600-watt solar prep. For a family that wants the proven dual-entry double-bunk layout with Legacy’s nicer finishes, a fireplace and a big outside kitchen at a half-ton weight, the 273DBHCK is a strong value bunkhouse.

Coachmen's Catalina is one of the highest-volume value travel-trailer nameplates in North America, spanning several sub-lines: the lighter Summit Series 7, the mainstream Summit Series 8, the full-feature Legacy Edition, the Trail Blazer toy haulers and the Destination park trailers. The 273DBHCK on this page is highlighted; the other profiled plans link to their own pages. Profiled here are breadth-spanning Summit 8 and Legacy Edition floorplans — the rest of the roster is catalogued on the line hub and profiled in demand order.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 38-gallon fresh tank is roughly 16% of the 2,000-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 273DBHCK with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 918 pounds is 12% of the 7,348-pound dry weight, which sits inside the 10–15% band usually quoted for stable towing. It is still a dry figure: loading the front pass-through and the fresh tank both push it up.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 9,348-pound GVWR the 273DBHCK is towing 2,000 pounds more than its 7,348-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 38 gallons of fresh against 74 grey and 29 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 273DBHCK sits 13 of 20 in the Coachmen Catalina line: 9,348 pounds against a line that runs from 6,518 to 11,458 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.

Either side of it in the same line: Coachmen Catalina 293QBCK is 84 pounds lighter at 9,264 lb GVWR; and Coachmen Catalina 303RKDS is 386 pounds heavier at 9,734 lb GVWR.

Against the 273DBHCK: the Puma Tracks 3200TSBH is 47 lb heavier and 3 ft longer; the Jay Flight 295TBS is 48 lb lighter and 3 ft longer and sleeps 1 more; the Eagle 275RBCS is 52 lb heavier and 3 ft shorter and sleeps 4 fewer. Those are differences in the published numbers only — what they cost, how they are built and how they live are separate questions each of those pages answers on its own terms.

Those are the nearest travel trailers from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.

For scale, the Coachmen Catalina floorplans profiled here run 4,647 to 9,130 pounds dry and 26 to 38 feet of exterior length across 20 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.

Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Coachmen Catalina line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 16 of them for the 273DBHCK. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.

Not published for this floorplan: interior height, tire specification. If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (95%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.

Values on this page carrying an asterisk were derived by arithmetic from published figures, or come from a single source, rather than being printed directly by the manufacturer. The flag travels with the number into the downloadable spec sheet.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.