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I think if you play around with placement of the boat and the axles to keep the tongue weight on the light side you will be fine. For several years I did the exact same as you are saying with a 25-foot Baja that was around 5500 lbs. I moved it back and forth a few flat miles from the lake to storage when I wasn't there. I towed it with my company car Plymouth MINI VAN! At the time, I had no other use for a truck, and I couldn't see buying one to go a few miles each way.

Obviously, it was wildly over capacity, but it was fine, and I ended up putting 220,000 miles on that car with no damage from doing it. The only issue I had was spinning the fronts like crazy the first 10 feet or so when pulling out. I would goose the boat engine while my ex was driving the van to give it some help to get rolling. No issues like that with your 4 wheel drive. It would be quite the show at the ramp, but it worked. Always made me laugh when people would have the shocked looks to see what the screeching tires on the ramp were from.