2023 CoachmenClipper Teardrops EXPLORE9.0TD

Coachmen lists the 2023 Clipper Teardrops EXPLORE9.0TD at 1,724 lb dry, a GVWR of 2,245 lb, a net carrying capacity of 521 lb and a tongue weight of 245 lb. Its dry weight plus its carrying capacity comes to exactly its GVWR.

It is 14'-2" long. Coachmen prints its tanks as 16 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 EXPLORE9.0TD 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.

• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 14.2%: largest of twenty; next is the 12.0TDPRO (13.6%).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 23.2%: second-smallest of nineteen, between the 1285SST (13.8%) and the 125ST (26.1%).
• Cargo capacity, 521 lb: third-smallest of nineteen, between the 9.0 (516 lb) and the 9.0TD (585 lb).
• GVWR, 2,245 lb: fourth-lowest of twenty, between the 9.0TD (2,172 lb) and the 108ST (2,687 lb).
• Dry weight, 1,724 lb: seventh-lightest of twenty, between the 806XLS (1,642 lb) and the 106 (1,727 lb).
• Tongue weight, 245 lb: seventh-heaviest of twenty, between the 125ST (241 lb) and the 12.0TD (250 lb).
• Fresh tank, 16 gal: smallest of eleven, level with the 806XLS, 860LS and 9.0TD; next are the 107LS, 108ST and two others (23 gal).
• Sleeping capacity, 2: smallest of twenty, level with the 9.0, 9.0TD and ESCAPE9.0TD; next are the 12.0TD, 12.0TDMAX and two others (3).
• Length, 14 ft: shared with the 9.0TD and ESCAPE9.0TD; of twenty, six shorter and eleven longer, nearest the 107LS (13 ft) and the 108ST (16 ft).

Next to the 806XLS, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the EXPLORE9.0TD is 82 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 652 lb lower, has 734 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 78 lb heavier, is 2 ft longer and sleeps four fewer; the two publish the same interior height and fresh tank.

Next to the 106 (2019 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the EXPLORE9.0TD is 3 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 659 lb lower, has 656 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 71 lb heavier, is 1 ft 4 in longer, has 10 in less interior height and sleeps four fewer.

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 16-gallon fresh tank is about 133 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 25% of the Clipper Teardrops EXPLORE9.0TD’s 521 lb cargo capacity, leaving 388 lb (194 lb per rated berth). Across 10 Clipper Camping Trailers floorplans the water share runs 11% to 42%, and 1 gives up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Clipper Camping Trailers Clipper Sport 108ST at 23% and Clipper Camping Trailers Clipper Classic 1285SST at 42%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).