Hi to everyone- I've been sailing since the 60s and currently own a Mutineer 15 and a Ranger 20 (both now for sale) and finally saw the light and bought a 1986 M15. Sailing primarily in west central Montana lakes, possibly into Canada in the future. I picked up the M15 yesterday in Portland, Oregon, and pulled it 650 miles home yesterday. I've got a Dodge Dakota V8 pickup and stayed around 65mph everywhere it was legal. It was very windy (no tail winds) crossing Oregon and Washington and there are lots of grades in Idaho and Montana. Pulling the trailer cost me about 2mpg and I wasn't willing to push the truck hard enough to maintain 60 to 65 in the mountains. Could you have made this trip in a small SUV? Probably not in the 12 hours it took me. Would a small SUV pull the M15? Sure. Would you enjoy it or would you have to work at it fairly hard on a long trip? My experience says work. I think the issue is WHERE you plan to pull the boat with a samll SUV. Short trips-probably not a problem. Long trips across open (windy) terrain with a lot of hills-you might want to reconsider. The only other M15 I've seen in Montana was being pulled by an Outback and it seemed to be adequate. The owner did, however, talk about sailing mostly in lakes that were generally in the less than 100 mile range. Jim Kyle Seeley Lake, MT (about 75 miles south of Flathead lake) M15 no name