Jayco Jay Feather · 2021–202524RL

The Jay Feather 24RL 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 24RL, 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 11' 0" 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 5,670-pound dry weight, 1,330 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 675-pound dry tongue weight. That dry tongue is 12% 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, 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 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 24RL 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, 19%: tenth-smallest of 47, between the 24BH and 29QBH (18.9%) and the 30RKB (19.2%).
• Grey tank, 30 gal: shared with the 166FBS, 171BH and four others; of 47, three smaller and 37 larger, nearest the 15TBSL, 17BHSL and 17RBSL (20 gal) and the 18FBS, 21MBH and two others (30.5 gal).
• Black tank, 30 gal: shared with the 15TBSL, 166FBS and seven others; of 47, one smaller and 36 larger, nearest the 17BHSL (20 gal) and the 15MRB, 16RB and sixteen others (30.5 gal).
• Cargo capacity, 1,330 lb: fifteenth-smallest of 47, between the 15MRB (1,320 lb) and the 16FBS (1,340 lb).
• Dry tongue weight, 675 lb: eighteenth-heaviest of 47, between the 24BH (670 lb) and the 26BHSL (680 lb).
• Dry weight, 5,670 lb: 23rd-heaviest of 47, between the 22RB (5,590 lb) and the 23RK (5,780 lb).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 1 in: shared with the 22RB, 24BH 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 tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.9%: shared with the 171BH; of 47, 26 smaller and nineteen larger, nearest the 30QB (11.6%) and the 166FBS, 21MML and 25RB (12.1%).
• GVWR, 7,000 lb: shared with the 22RB; of 47, 21 lower and 24 higher, nearest the 21MBH (6,995 lb) and the 26BHSL (7,200 lb).
• Length, 28 ft: shared with the 23MBD; of 47, 22 shorter and 23 longer, nearest the 22RB (27 ft 2 in) and the 23RK (28 ft 7 in).
• Sleeping capacity, 6: shared with the 17BHSL, 21MBH and five others; of 47, 23 smaller and sixteen larger, nearest the 171BH (5) and the 22BH and 23MBD (7).

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

Next to the 23RK (2024–2027 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 24RL is 110 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 400 lb lower, has 290 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 10 lb heavier, is 7 in shorter, stands 3 in taller, has a grey tank 31 gal smaller, has a black tank 0.5 gal smaller and sleeps two more; the two publish the same interior height and fresh 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 6,500 lb (2021) to 7,000 lb (2025); dry weight runs from 5,305 lb (2024) to 5,670 lb (2025); dry tongue weight runs from 640 lb (2024) to 675 lb (2025). The published sleeping capacity changes across the years: 4-6 in 2021–2022, up to 6 in 2023–2025. 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 8 of the published fields between the 2024 and 2025 24RL. 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), 34% of the 24RL’s 1,330 lb cargo capacity, leaving 874 lb (146 lb per rated berth). Across 47 Jay Feather floorplans the water share runs 23% to 43%, and 11 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Feather 16FBS at 34% and Jay Feather 15MRB at 35%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).