Jayco Jay Feather · 202529RL

The Jay Feather 29RL 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 29RL, 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 29RL 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 pantry and a refrigerator; a tri-fold sofa and a dinette in a slide; and a kitchen with a microwave, an LED TV and overhead cabinets. At the rear: a theater seat under overhead cabinets. It shows one slide-out. Outside it labels an LP quick connect. Layouts change with options; check the unit itself.

For the 2025 model year Jayco published a 8,650-pound GVWR on a 7,130-pound dry weight, 1,520 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 950-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 29RL 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 29RL 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.

• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 17.6%: fourth-smallest of 47, between the 33BH (17.1%) and the 27BHB (18.3%).
• Dry tongue weight, 950 lb: fifth-heaviest of 47, between the 32RL (930 lb) and the 26FK (955 lb).
• Black tank, 40 gal: shared with the 23MBD; of 47, 44 smaller and one larger, nearest the 16DB, 16FBS and eleven others (38 gal) and the 33BH (68 gal).
• Dry weight, 7,130 lb: eighth-heaviest of 47, between the 26FK (7,090 lb) and the 30QB and 30RKB (7,265 lb).
• Length, 35 ft 4 in: eighth-longest of 47, between the 29BHB (34 ft) and the 32RL (35 ft 6 in).
• GVWR, 8,650 lb: ninth-highest of 47, between the 29BHB and 30QB (8,500 lb) and the 26FK (8,700 lb).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 13.3%: tenth-largest of 47, between the 27BH and 32QBH (12.9%) and the 19MBS, 24FK and 27RK (13.4%).
• 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).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 2 in: shared with the 23MBD, 25RB and four others; of 47, 33 lower and seven taller, nearest the 22RB, 24BH and four others (10 ft 1 in) and the 28RB, 30RKB and 32RL (10 ft 3 in).
• Cargo capacity, 1,520 lb: 23rd-largest of 47, between the 25RLSL (1,490 lb) and the 18RBF, 21MBH and 27RK (1,545 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 26FK (2025–2027 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 29RL is 40 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 50 lb lower, has 90 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 5 lb lighter, is 1 ft 6 in longer, stands 1 in taller, has a grey tank 61.5 gal smaller, has a black tank 9.5 gal larger and sleeps two more; the two publish the same interior height and fresh tank.

Next to the 30QB (2021–2023 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 29RL is 135 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 150 lb higher, has 285 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 110 lb heavier, is 1 ft 7 in shorter, has a grey tank 31 gal smaller, has a black tank 9 gal larger and sleeps three fewer; the two publish the same exterior height, interior height and fresh tank.

2025 is the only model year this catalogue holds a verified factory record for the 29RL. 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 29RL’s 1,520 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,064 lb (177 lb per rated berth). Across 47 Jay Feather floorplans the water share runs 23% to 43%, and 21 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Feather 17RBSL at 30% and Jay Feather 25RLSL at 31%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).