Jayco Jay Feather · 202527RK

The Jay Feather 27RK 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 27RK, 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.

Jayco’s 2025 Jay Feather brochure draws the 27RK with a 60-by-80-inch queen bed between nightstands, with overhead cabinets at the front. Mid-coach: a bath with a shower, a medicine cabinet, a linen cabinet and a wardrobe; a tri-fold sofa and a dinette in a slide; and an entertainment center with a fireplace, overhead cabinets and an overhead cabinet with microwave. At the rear: a kitchen with a pantry, a refrigerator, a second refrigerator and overhead cabinets. It shows one slide-out and a 20-foot awning. Outside it labels an LP quick connect. Layouts change with options; check the unit itself.

For the 2025 model year Jayco published a 8,200-pound GVWR on a 6,655-pound dry weight, 1,545 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 890-pound dry tongue weight. That dry tongue is 13% 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 ST225/75R15'E' tyres; the load range in that code is part of the axle rating and a replacement set has to match it.

This is the only 27RK model year with a verified factory record in this catalogue.

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 27RK differs from the other 46 Jay Feather floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2025). How these ranks are worked out.

• Exterior height, 10 ft 5 in: shared with the 31BH; of 47, 44 lower and one taller, nearest the 29BHB (10 ft 4 in) and the 33BH (10 ft 7 in).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 18.8%: seventh-smallest of 47, between the 26FK (18.5%) and the 24BH and 29QBH (18.9%).
• Dry tongue weight, 890 lb: eighth-heaviest of 47, between the 27BH and 30QB (840 lb) and the 33BH (910 lb).
• Dry weight, 6,655 lb: twelfth-heaviest of 47, between the 28RB (6,510 lb) and the 29BHB (6,820 lb).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 13.4%: shared with the 19MBS and 24FK; of 47, 38 smaller and six larger, nearest the 29RL (13.3%) and the 18MBH, 26FK and 31BH (13.5%).
• Length, 32 ft 4 in: fourteenth-longest of 47, between the 27BH (32 ft 3 in) and the 28RB (33 ft 1 in).
• 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).
• GVWR, 8,200 lb: shared with the 27BH; of 47, 33 lower and twelve higher, nearest the 25BH, 26RL and 27BHB (7,600 lb) and the 28RB (8,400 lb).
• Grey tank, 60 gal: shared with the 22RB; of 47, 26 smaller and nineteen larger, nearest the 32QBH (57 gal) and the 22BH, 23RK and six others (61 gal).
• Cargo capacity, 1,545 lb: shared with the 18RBF and 21MBH; of 47, 25 smaller and nineteen larger, nearest the 29RL (1,520 lb) and the 19MRK (1,580 lb).
• 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 28RB (2025–2026 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 27RK is 145 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 200 lb lower, has 345 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 145 lb heavier, is 9 in shorter, stands 2 in taller, has a grey tank 16 gal smaller, has a black tank 8 gal smaller and sleeps two more; the two publish the same interior height and fresh tank.

Next to the 29BHB (2025–2027 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 27RK is 165 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 300 lb lower, has 135 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 275 lb heavier, is 1 ft 8 in shorter, stands 1 in taller, has a grey tank 8.5 gal smaller, has a black tank 0.5 gal smaller and sleeps four fewer; the two publish the same interior height and fresh tank.

2025 is the only model year this catalogue holds a verified factory record for the 27RK. That record is published here on its own, and it is not a general specification for the floorplan: Jayco revises published weights, ratings and even tire sizes from one model year to the next, so every figure below is evidence about 2025 and about no 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), 30% of the 27RK’s 1,545 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,088 lb (181 lb per rated berth). Across 47 Jay Feather floorplans the water share runs 23% to 43%, and 23 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Feather 18RBF at 30% and Jay Feather 17RBSL at 30%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).