Jayco Jay Feather · 2021–202427BHB

The Jay Feather 27BHB 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 2024 27BHB, 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 2024 model year, which is the measurement that matters for a site pitch as well as for the road.

For the 2024 model year Jayco published a 7,600-pound GVWR on a 6,210-pound dry weight, 1,390 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 710-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 2024 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 2023 build of the same floorplan, 4 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 2024 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 27BHB differs from the other 46 Jay Feather floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2021–2024). How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 18.3%: fifth-smallest of 47, between the 29RL (17.6%) and the 26FK (18.5%).
• Sleeping capacity, 9: shared with the 30QB; of 47, 40 smaller and five larger, nearest the 16DB, 199MBS and five others (8) and the 26BHSL, 29BHB and three others (10).
• Dry weight, 6,210 lb: fifteenth-heaviest of 47, between the 24BH (6,080 lb) and the 27BH (6,490 lb).
• Dry tongue weight, 710 lb: fifteenth-heaviest of 47, between the 27MK (705 lb) and the 25RB (715 lb).
• Length, 33 ft 2 in: shared with the 27MK; of 47, 35 shorter and ten longer, nearest the 28RB (33 ft 1 in) and the 26FK (33 ft 10 in).
• Cargo capacity, 1,390 lb: seventeenth-smallest of 47, between the 16FBS (1,340 lb) and the 22RB (1,410 lb).
• GVWR, 7,600 lb: shared with the 25BH and 26RL; of 47, 30 lower and fourteen higher, nearest the 22BH, 23MBD and three others (7,500 lb) and the 27BH and 27RK (8,200 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, 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, 11.4%: shared with the 19MRK, 22RB and 28RB; of 47, nineteen smaller and 24 larger, nearest the 16FBS and 18FBS (11.3%) and the 16RB and 23RK (11.5%).
• 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 24BH (2021–2025 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 27BHB is 130 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 100 lb higher, has 30 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 40 lb heavier, is 3 ft 6 in longer and sleeps one more; the two publish the same exterior height, interior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 27BH (2026–2027 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 27BHB is 280 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 600 lb lower, has 320 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 130 lb lighter, is 11 in longer, stands 1 in lower, has a grey tank 15 gal smaller, has a black tank 7.5 gal smaller and sleeps one more; the two publish the same interior height and fresh tank.

This floorplan has a published factory record for 4 model years here, 2021 to 2024. The specification does not hold still: dry weight runs from 6,085 lb (2023) to 6,370 lb (2022); dry tongue weight runs from 695 lb (2021) to 745 lb (2023). The published sleeping capacity changes across the years: 8-9 in 2021–2022, up to 9 in 2023–2024. 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 4 of the published fields between the 2023 and 2024 27BHB. 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), 33% of the 27BHB’s 1,390 lb cargo capacity, leaving 934 lb (104 lb per rated berth). Across 47 Jay Feather floorplans the water share runs 23% to 43%, and 13 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Feather 22RB at 32% and Jay Feather 16FBS at 34%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).