2026 Forest River Sabre33RLP

The 33RLP is Sabre’s signature outdoor-living plan, and the one that opens onto the campsite. The “RLP” marks a rear-living patio layout built around the Sundeck — an industry-first retractable patio deck that folds out from the rear wall, extending the living space outdoors. Inside, an L-shaped sectional, an electric fireplace, a residential oven, an air-fryer microwave, a free-standing dinette option, a 12-volt refrigerator and a private front bedroom round it out, under three slide-outs, sleeping four. It rides the full Sabre build: the Lippert M-19 welded I-beam chassis, vacuum-bond laminated sidewalls, a high-gloss gelcoat front cap and an electric auto-level system.

Forest River publishes an 11,948-pound UVW and a 2,747-pound CCC, which derive a 14,695-pound GVWR (the manufacturer’s own definition is that CCC equals GVWR minus UVW), against a 2,375-pound dry pin. Twin 15,000-BTU ducted air conditioners (prepped for a third), a tankless water heater, a 12-volt refrigerator, real wood lumbercore cabinetry, solid-surface countertops and smart projectors in the primary bedroom are standard, under dual 12-foot and 16-foot awnings.

US street pricing has run around the high $60,000s (units have advertised near $67,800). It is the outdoor-living, couple’s Sabre. For a couple who wants the Sundeck retractable patio deck, a rear living room with an L-shaped sectional and a fireplace, and a residential oven in an affordable-luxury full-size fifth wheel — towed behind a properly rated three-quarter-ton or larger truck — the 33RLP is the line’s signature outdoor coach.

Sabre is Forest River's affordable-luxury full-size fifth wheel — a half-step above the brand's own up-trim sibling Sandpiper toward the Cedar Creek luxury line, and a cross-shop against Grand Design's Reflection and Keystone's Cougar from just above. Six of the most distinct 2026 retail floorplans are profiled here in full. The 33RLP on this page is highlighted; each other plan links to its own page.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 49-gallon fresh tank is roughly 15% of the 2,747-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 33RLP with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 2,375 pounds is 20% of this floorplan’s 11,948-pound dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin weight rides in the bed of the truck, so it comes off payload rather than off tow rating — and it rises with the trailer as you load it, not in proportion to what you put over the axles.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 14,695-pound GVWR the 33RLP is towing 2,747 pounds more than its 11,948-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 49 gallons of fresh against 76 grey and 38 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 33RLP sits 2 of 6 in the Sabre line: 14,695 pounds against a line that runs from 13,508 to 16,425 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: Sabre 32GKS is 1,187 pounds lighter at 13,508 lb GVWR; and Sabre 36FLX is 608 pounds heavier at 15,303 lb GVWR.

Against the 33RLP: the Nightfall 270N is 64 lb heavier and 7 ft shorter; the Sandstorm 2710 is 64 lb heavier and 7 ft shorter; the Wildcat 402BEDS is 105 lb heavier and 3 ft longer and sleeps 4 more. 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 fifth wheels 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 Sabre floorplans profiled here run 10,658 to 13,838 pounds dry and 34 to 44 feet of exterior length across 6 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 Sabre line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 18 of them for the 33RLP. 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: tire size (a tire description is published, a size is not). 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.