Jayco Jay Feather · 2021–202524BH

The Jay Feather 24BH 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 24BH, 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 7,500-pound GVWR on a 6,080-pound dry weight, 1,420 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 670-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, 5 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 24BH 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, 18.9%: shared with the 29QBH; of 47, seven smaller and 38 larger, nearest the 27RK (18.8%) and the 24RL (19%).
• Dry weight, 6,080 lb: sixteenth-heaviest of 47, between the 23MBD (6,045 lb) and the 27BHB (6,210 lb).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11%: shared with the 21MBH and 22BH; of 47, eleven smaller and 33 larger, nearest the 23MBD (10.9%) and the 25BH (11.1%).
• Sleeping capacity, 8: shared with the 16DB, 199MBS and four others; of 47, 33 smaller and seven larger, nearest the 22BH and 23MBD (7) and the 27BHB and 30QB (9).
• Dry tongue weight, 670 lb: nineteenth-heaviest of 47, between the 23RK and 25BH (665 lb) and the 24RL (675 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,420 lb: twentieth-smallest of 47, between the 21MML (1,415 lb) and the 16DB (1,445 lb).
• Grey tank, 61 gal: shared with the 22BH, 23RK and five others; of 47, 28 smaller and eleven larger, nearest the 22RB and 27RK (60 gal) and the 33BH (68 gal).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 1 in: shared with the 22RB, 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).
• Length, 29 ft 8 in: shared with the 25BH; of 47, 26 shorter and nineteen longer, nearest the 22BH (28 ft 10 in) and the 25RB and 25RLSL (30 ft 1 in).
• GVWR, 7,500 lb: shared with the 22BH, 23MBD and two others; of 47, 25 lower and seventeen higher, nearest the 23RK (7,400 lb) and the 25BH, 26RL and 27BHB (7,600 lb).
• Black tank, 30.5 gal: shared with the 15MRB, 16RB and fifteen others; of 47, eleven smaller and eighteen larger, nearest the 15TBSL, 166FBS and eight others (30 gal) and the 30QB (31 gal).

Next to the 23MBD (2026–2027 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 24BH is 35 lb heavier by dry weight, has 35 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 10 lb heavier, is 1 ft 8 in longer, stands 1 in lower, has 3 in less interior height, has a grey tank 15 gal smaller, has a black tank 9.5 gal smaller and sleeps one more; the two publish the same GVWR and fresh tank.

Next to the 27BHB (2021–2024 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 24BH is 130 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 100 lb lower, has 30 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 40 lb lighter, is 3 ft 6 in shorter and sleeps one fewer; the two publish the same exterior height, interior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

This floorplan has a published factory record for 5 model years here, 2021 to 2025. The specification does not hold still: GVWR runs from 7,250 lb (2021) to 7,500 lb (2025); dry weight runs from 6,000 lb (2024) to 6,220 lb (2021); dry tongue weight runs from 660 lb (2021) to 740 lb (2023). The published sleeping capacity changes across the years: 7-8 in 2021, 6-8 in 2022, up to 6 in 2023–2024, up to 8 in 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 5 of the published fields between the 2024 and 2025 24BH. 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 24BH’s 1,420 lb cargo capacity, leaving 964 lb (120 lb per rated berth). Across 47 Jay Feather floorplans the water share runs 23% to 43%, and 16 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Feather 16DB at 32% and Jay Feather 21MML at 32%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).