2022 Jayco Jay Feather25RB

The Jay Feather 25RB is one of Jayco's Jay Feather travel trailers, the lightweight step-up line positioned above the value Jay Flight SLX and below the premium Eagle HT. This page covers one model year of it — the 2022 25RB, exactly as Jayco published it — because the numbers that decide whether your truck can pull this trailer are not the same from one year to the next.

For the 2022 model year Jayco published a 7,250-pound GVWR on a 5,825-pound dry weight, 1,425 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 660-pound dry tongue weight. That dry tongue is 11% of the dry weight, inside the 10–15% band conventionally quoted for a bumper-pull trailer. Tongue weight is not fixed — it moves with how the trailer is loaded, and weight added ahead of the axles raises it. A tongue load in that range wants a weight-distribution hitch, and the tow vehicle's tongue-weight limit is a separate number from its trailer-weight limit — check the loaded tongue against the hitch receiver's rating and the vehicle's payload, not against the tow rating alone.

Against the 2021 build of the same floorplan, 8 published fields moved. The full comparison is in section 02, and it is drawn from two separate verified factory records rather than from one record and an assumption about the other.

A 2022 trailer is 4 model years old as of 2026, which puts it squarely in used-buyer territory. Section 05 sets out what to inspect on a travel trailer of this age — tyre date codes, roof and seam sealant, slide seals, and the soft-floor and delamination checks that separate a tidy coach from an expensive one.

Jayco changed 8 of the published fields between the 2021 and 2022 25RB. Every figure in both columns is that model year's own factory record — nothing here is carried across from the other year.

Fresh water is the single biggest line in this floorplan’s load plan. A full 61-gallon tank is about 36% of the 1,425-pound cargo capacity — enough that whether you tow with water aboard is a real decision on the 25RB rather than a detail.

The published dry tongue weight of 660 pounds is 11% of the 5,825-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 7,250-pound GVWR the 25RB is towing 1,425 pounds more than its 5,825-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 61 gallons of fresh against 53 grey and 22 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Against the 25RB: the Jay Flight 242BHSW is 1 ft shorter and sleeps 4 more; the IBEX 25RLSS is 7 lb lighter and 2 ft shorter; the Puma Tracks 2430BHS is 19 lb heavier. 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 Jay Feather floorplans profiled here run 2,515 to 8,010 pounds dry and 18 to 38 feet of exterior length across 43 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 Jay Feather line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 11 of them for the 25RB. 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: exterior height, slide count, axle count, tire specification, awning, refrigerator, air conditioning. 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 (57%) 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.