Jayco Jay Feather · 2021–202522RB

The Jay Feather 22RB 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 2025 22RB, 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. Jayco publishes it at 8' 0" wide closed and 10' 11" with the slide-outs run out for the 2025 model year, which is the measurement that matters for a site pitch as well as for the road.

For the 2025 model year Jayco published a 7,000-pound GVWR on a 5,590-pound dry weight, 1,410 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 635-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. The 2025 trailer left the factory on ST205/75R14'D' tyres; the load range in that code is part of the axle rating and a replacement set has to match it.

Against the 2024 build of the same floorplan, 7 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 2025 trailer is close to current as of 2026, but section 05 still applies: check it against its build date rather than its model year. Jayco commonly builds a model year well before the calendar year turns, and the tyre date codes have to be read against the build month, not the badge.

How the 22RB differs from the other 46 Jay Feather floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2021–2025). How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 20.1%: fifteenth-smallest of 47, between the 29BHB and 32QBH (19.8%) and the 32RL (20.4%).
• Black tank, 34 gal: seventeenth-largest of 47, between the 30QB (31 gal) and the 16DB, 16FBS and eleven others (38 gal).
• Cargo capacity, 1,410 lb: eighteenth-smallest of 47, between the 27BHB (1,390 lb) and the 21MML (1,415 lb).
• Length, 27 ft 2 in: 22nd-shortest of 47, between the 24FK (27 ft) and the 23MBD and 24RL (28 ft).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 1 in: shared with the 24BH, 24RL and three others; of 47, 27 lower and fourteen taller, nearest the 18MBH, 18RBF and 22BH (10 ft) and the 23MBD, 25RB and five others (10 ft 2 in).
• Dry weight, 5,590 lb: 24th-lightest of 47, between the 22BH (5,565 lb) and the 24RL (5,670 lb).
• Grey tank, 60 gal: shared with the 27RK; of 47, 26 smaller and nineteen larger, nearest the 32QBH (57 gal) and the 22BH, 23RK and six others (61 gal).
• Sleeping capacity, 4: shared with the 15MRB, 166FBS and eleven others; of 47, eight smaller and 25 larger, nearest the 173MRB, 183FBS and three others (3) and the 171BH (5).
• GVWR, 7,000 lb: shared with the 24RL; of 47, 21 lower and 24 higher, nearest the 21MBH (6,995 lb) and the 26BHSL (7,200 lb).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.4%: shared with the 19MRK, 27BHB and 28RB; of 47, nineteen smaller and 24 larger, nearest the 16FBS and 18FBS (11.3%) and the 16RB and 23RK (11.5%).
• Dry tongue weight, 635 lb: shared with the 199MBS; of 47, 22 lighter and 23 heavier, nearest the 26RL (630 lb) and the 17FK (640 lb).

Next to the 22BH (2023 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 22RB is 25 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 500 lb lower, has 525 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 25 lb heavier, is 1 ft 8 in shorter, stands 1 in taller, has a grey tank 1 gal smaller, has a black tank 3.5 gal larger and sleeps three fewer; the two publish the same interior height and fresh tank.

Next to the 24RL, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 22RB is 80 lb lighter by dry weight, has 80 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 40 lb lighter, is 10 in shorter, has a grey tank 30 gal larger, has a black tank 4 gal larger and sleeps two fewer; the two publish the same GVWR, exterior height, interior height and fresh tank.

This floorplan has a published factory record for 4 model years here, 2021 to 2025. The specification does not hold still: GVWR runs from 6,750 lb (2021) to 7,000 lb (2025); dry weight runs from 5,455 lb (2024) to 5,655 lb (2021); dry tongue weight runs from 595 lb (2024) to 680 lb (2023). The published sleeping capacity changes across the years: 2-3 in 2021, up to 3 in 2023, up to 4 in 2024–2025. Each year’s complete record is printed separately below, carrying only that year’s own published figures and source. Nothing is copied across from a neighbouring year.

Jayco changed 7 of the published fields between the 2024 and 2025 22RB. Every figure in both columns is that model year's own factory record — nothing here is carried across from the other year.

A full 55-gallon fresh tank is about 457 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 32% of the 22RB’s 1,410 lb cargo capacity, leaving 954 lb (238 lb per rated berth). Across 47 Jay Feather floorplans the water share runs 23% to 43%, and 14 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Feather 21MML at 32% and Jay Feather 27BHB at 33%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).