2023 CoachmenClipper Classic 1285SST

Coachmen lists the 2023 Clipper Classic 1285SST at 2,840 lb dry, a GVWR of 3,296 lb, a net carrying capacity of 456 lb and a tongue weight of 296 lb. Its dry weight plus its carrying capacity comes to exactly its GVWR.

It is 19' long. Coachmen prints its tanks as 23 gal fresh.

Every number on this page was read on 7 Nov 2026 from Coachmen’s Clipper camping-trailer brochures (filed in Coachmen’s year folders; the brochures print no year); model year 2023 comes from where the maker files it on its own site, not from the document’s text.

How the 1285SST differs from the other nineteen Clipper Camping Trailers floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2023). How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity, 456 lb: smallest of nineteen; next is the 9.0 (516 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 13.8%: smallest of nineteen; next is the EXPLORE9.0TD (23.2%).
• Dry weight, 2,840 lb: second-heaviest of twenty, between the V2 (2,581 lb) and the V3 (3,217 lb).
• Length, 19 ft: second-longest of twenty, between the V2 (18 ft 3 in) and the V3 (21 ft 8 in).
• Tongue weight, 296 lb: third-heaviest of twenty, between the V2 (290 lb) and the 12.0TDPRO (340 lb).
• GVWR, 3,296 lb: eighth-highest of twenty, between the 125ST (3,241 lb) and the 12.0TDMAX and 12.0TDXL (3,720 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 10.4%: tenth-smallest of twenty, between the ESCAPE9.0TD (10.3%) and the 9.0TD (10.8%).
• Fresh tank, 23 gal: shared with the 107LS, 108ST and 128LS; of eleven, four smaller and three larger, nearest the 806XLS, 860LS and two others (16 gal) and the 12.0TDMAX, 12.0TDPRO and 12.0TDXL (27 gal).
• Sleeping capacity, 6: shared with the 106, 806XLS and three others; of twenty, ten smaller and four larger, nearest the 860LS and 860QS (4) and the 107LS and 108ST (7).

Next to the V2 (2021 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 1285SST is 259 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 494 lb lower, has 753 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 6 lb heavier, is 9 in longer and has 10 in less interior height; the two publish the same sleeping capacity.

Next to the V3 (2021 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 1285SST is 377 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,131 lb lower, has 754 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 131 lb lighter, is 2 ft 8 in shorter and has 10 in less interior height; the two publish the same sleeping capacity.

Coachmen’s Clipper camping-trailer brochures (filed in Coachmen’s year folders; the brochures print no year) lists 20 Clipper Camping Trailers floorplans; every one with a printed weight has a page here.

A full 23-gallon fresh tank is about 191 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 42% of the Clipper Classic 1285SST’s 456 lb cargo capacity, leaving 265 lb (44 lb per rated berth). Across 10 Clipper Camping Trailers floorplans the water share runs 11% to 42%, and this plan’s is the highest. Nearest on that share: Clipper Camping Trailers Clipper Teardrops EXPLORE9.0TD at 25%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).

The record at the top of this page is the 1285SST from 2023. The maker’s own documents for earlier model years also list the 1285SST, and those 2 years are, each from its own brochure printed here: 2020 to 2021. The figures change from year to year, so check the year on the trailer’s own label. A field a year’s brochure does not print reads “Not published” and is never filled from another year.