2026 Prime Time Tracer295DB

The 295DB is the top of the Tracer line. The Forest River factory describes the floorplan as two entries and two slide outs, with a fiberglass exterior and a 19-foot awning, and an interior of bunk beds and a front bedroom — sleeping up to eight in about 38 feet, the heaviest and longest Tracer. Two slides widen the living space, and the second entry door serves the bunk end. It carries the full Tracer Touring build in laminated fiberglass: welded aluminum framing and a pinch-rolled laminated Eternabond structure, 2-inch foam-block-insulated walls, a Tufflex PVC roof under a lifetime warranty, a fully enclosed drop-frame underbelly, an installed 200-watt solar panel with a 40-amp controller, a 12-volt glass refrigerator and an on-demand tankless water heater.

Prime Time publishes a 9,850-pound GVWR against the 7,828-pound dry weight — the highest GVWR and heaviest dry weight in the line — leaving a 2,022-pound cargo capacity and a 1,050-pound dry tongue, the heaviest tongue in the line. A fully ducted 15,000-BTU air conditioner and 42/102/34-gallon fresh/grey/black tanks are standard, the 102-gallon grey being well above the line norm for family use. Prime Time and Forest River publish no MSRP for the line, so confirm street pricing with a dealer. The 295DB is the Tracer for families who want the biggest plan in the line — but its 9,850-pound GVWR and 1,050-pound tongue want an honestly rated half-ton or a small three-quarter-ton, so match the tow vehicle carefully.

Tracer is Prime Time's value / mid touring travel trailer — laminated, welded-aluminum-framed half-ton towables and a cross-shop against Forest River's own Aurora and Salem / Wildwood, Jayco's Jay Flight SLX and Grand Design's Transcend Xplor, with the metal-sided Prime Time Avenger as its value sibling. Six floorplans are profiled in full and linked below; the remaining plans are catalogued and shown muted. The 295DB on this page is highlighted.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 42-gallon fresh tank is roughly 17% of the 2,022-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 295DB with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 1,050 pounds is 13% of the 7,828-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 9,850-pound GVWR the 295DB is towing 2,022 pounds more than its 7,828-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 42 gallons of fresh against 102 grey and 34 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Of the 6 Tracer floorplans profiled here, the 295DB carries the highest GVWR at 9,850 pounds. It is the top of the line by weight, which makes tow-vehicle capability the first thing to settle rather than the last.

Either side of it in the same line: Tracer 286RL is 230 pounds lighter at 9,620 lb GVWR.

Against the 295DB: the Westbrook 27REXC is 10 lb heavier and 4 ft shorter; the Coachmen Catalina 293TQBSCK is 18 lb heavier and 2 ft shorter and sleeps 2 more; the Aurora 29TQS is 26 lb lighter and 2 ft shorter. 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 Tracer floorplans profiled here run 5,013 to 7,828 pounds dry and 23 to 38 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 Tracer line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 17 of them for the 295DB. 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 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 (96%) 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.

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