Jayco · 2024–2027Jay Feather 29QBH

The Jay Feather 29QBH is one of the largest floorplans in the line and built for a full house. Triple bunks handle the kids, a private front queen gives the parents a real bedroom, a spacious full bath sits across the rear, and an outdoor kitchen moves cooking and cleanup outside — a 36-foot layout that sleeps up to ten while keeping Jay Feather’s residential finish. A single large slide opens the main living area, and the exterior storage and outside kitchen make it a genuine basecamp for week-plus family trips.

The build is the full Jay Feather platform stretched to its largest form — an American-made Norco® Z-frame with integrated A-frame, a vacuum-bonded Stronghold VBL™ laminated floor, the Magnum Truss™ roof and an aluminum-framed rounded front. An 8,995-pound GVWR on a 7,295-pound dry weight leaves 1,700 pounds of payload — the most of the profiled Feathers — and the 55-gallon fresh with a 61-gallon gray supports an extended stay for a crowd. An 11 cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator and the residential finish carry over from the rest of the line.

It sleeps ten and tows with a properly equipped half-ton-plus, near an MSRP of $52,000 before the usual dealer discounting. For a large family who want triple bunks, a private bedroom, a full rear bath and outdoor cooking in the lightest build that offers them, the 29QBH is a family flagship in the Jay Feather range.

This floorplan has a verified factory record for 4 model years here, 2024 to 2027, and the specification does not hold still. Across those years GVWR ranges from 8,500 lb in 2024 to 8,995 lb in 2026, a spread of 495 lb; dry weight ranges from 6,970 lb in 2024 to 7,335 lb in 2027, a spread of 365 lb; dry tongue weight ranges from 750 lb in 2026 to 958 lb in 2025, a spread of 208 lb. Even the published sleeping capacity moves (10 and 11). That is why each model year has its own page below, carrying only its own published figures. Nothing on a year page is copied across from a neighbouring year.

Jay Feather is Jayco's lightweight step-up travel trailer — a notch above the value Jay Flight SLX, built on an American-made Norco® Z-frame with vacuum-bonded laminated walls, an 11 cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator and residential touches. The 2026 line runs nineteen floorplans from compact Murphy-bed couples' trailers up to 36-foot family bunkhouses. The 29QBH on this page is highlighted; each other profiled plan links to its own page, and the rest of the line is catalogued on the hub.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 55-gallon fresh tank is roughly 27% of the 1,700-pound cargo capacity, leaving the Jay Feather 29QBH with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 750 pounds is 10% of the 7,295-pound dry weight, which sits inside the 10–15% band usually quoted for stable towing. It is still a dry figure: loading the front pass-through and the fresh tank both push it up.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 8,995-pound GVWR the Jay Feather 29QBH is towing 1,700 pounds more than its 7,295-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 55 gallons of fresh against 61 grey and 30 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the Jay Feather 29QBH sits 39 of 43 in the Jay Feather line: 8,995 pounds against a line that runs from 3,500 to 9,600 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.

Either side of it in the same line: Jay Feather 27MK is 145 pounds lighter at 8,850 lb GVWR; and Jay Feather 30RKB matches it exactly at 8,995 lb GVWR.

1 other Jay Feather plan shares this floorplan’s 8,995 lb GVWR, so the ranking above separates plans that tow to the same ceiling. On a shared chassis the figure that actually differs between them is cargo capacity and where the weight sits, not the rating.

Against the Jay Feather 29QBH: the Coachmen Freedom Express Ultra Lite 259FKDS is 5 lb heavier and 6 ft shorter and sleeps 6 fewer; the Jay Flight 335BHS is 5 lb heavier and 2 ft longer; the Passport 2900BH is 5 lb heavier and 3 ft shorter. Those are differences in the published numbers only — what they cost, how they are built and how they live are separate questions each of those pages answers on its own terms.

Those are the nearest travel trailers from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.

For scale, the Jay Feather floorplans profiled here run 2,515 to 8,010 pounds dry and 18 to 38 feet of exterior length across 43 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.

Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Jay Feather line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 18 of them for the Jay Feather 29QBH. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.

Every tracked field is published for this floorplan — which is less common than it should be, and worth noting when comparing this plan against one where half the table is blank.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (97%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.