Jayco Jay Feather · 2021–202330QB

The Jay Feather 30QB 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 2023 30QB, 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 2023 model year, which is the measurement that matters for a site pitch as well as for the road.

For the 2023 model year Jayco published a 8,500-pound GVWR on a 7,265-pound dry weight, 1,235 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 840-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 2023 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.

Against the 2022 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 2023 trailer is 3 model years old as of 2026, which puts it squarely in used-buyer territory. Section 05 sets out what to inspect on a travel trailer of this age — tyre date codes, roof and seam sealant, slide seals, and the soft-floor and delamination checks that separate a tidy coach from an expensive one.

How the 30QB differs from the other 46 Jay Feather floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2021–2023). How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 14.5%: smallest of 47; next is the 31BH (16.6%).
• Length, 36 ft 11 in: fourth-longest of 47, between the 29QBH (36 ft 1 in) and the 33BH (37 ft).
• Cargo capacity, 1,235 lb: ninth-smallest of 47, between the 16RB and 173MRB (1,155 lb) and the 171BH and 199MBS (1,245 lb).
• Dry weight, 7,265 lb: shared with the 30RKB; of 47, 40 lighter and five heavier, nearest the 29RL (7,130 lb) and the 29QBH (7,295 lb).
• Sleeping capacity, 9: shared with the 27BHB; of 47, 40 smaller and five larger, nearest the 16DB, 199MBS and five others (8) and the 26BHSL, 29BHB and three others (10).
• Dry tongue weight, 840 lb: shared with the 27BH; of 47, 37 lighter and eight heavier, nearest the 24FK (785 lb) and the 27RK (890 lb).
• GVWR, 8,500 lb: shared with the 29BHB; of 47, 36 lower and nine higher, nearest the 28RB (8,400 lb) and the 29RL (8,650 lb).
• 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).
• Black tank, 31 gal: eighteenth-largest of 47, between the 15MRB, 16RB and sixteen others (30.5 gal) and the 22RB (34 gal).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.6%: 22nd-largest of 47, between the 16RB and 23RK (11.5%) and the 171BH and 24RL (11.9%).
• 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).

Next to the 29RL (2025 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 30QB is 135 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 150 lb lower, has 285 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 110 lb lighter, is 1 ft 7 in longer, has a grey tank 31 gal larger, has a black tank 9 gal smaller and sleeps three more; the two publish the same exterior height, interior height and fresh tank.

Next to the 30RKB (2025–2027 page), the floorplan with the same dry weight, the 30QB has a GVWR 495 lb lower, has 495 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 145 lb lighter, is 1 ft 1 in longer, stands 1 in lower, has a black tank 0.5 gal larger and sleeps five more; the two publish the same dry weight, interior height, fresh tank and grey tank.

Next to the 29QBH (2024–2027 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 30QB is 30 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 495 lb lower, has 465 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 90 lb heavier, is 10 in longer, has a black tank 0.5 gal larger and sleeps one fewer; the two publish the same exterior height, interior height, fresh tank and grey tank.

This floorplan has a published factory record for 3 model years here, 2021 to 2023. The specification does not hold still: dry weight runs from 7,265 lb (2023) to 7,295 lb (2022); dry tongue weight runs from 835 lb (2021) to 840 lb (2023). The published sleeping capacity changes across the years: 8-9 in 2021, 7-10 in 2022, up to 9 in 2023. 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 2022 and 2023 30QB. Every figure in both columns is that model year's own factory record — nothing here is carried across from the other year.

4 fields not compared above. Exterior height; Exterior width, slides out; Furnace output; Tire size. The 2022 figures on this page come from Jayco's own 2022 brochure, which carries no column for them at all; the 2023 figures come from its 2023 model page, which does. That is a difference between two kinds of factory document rather than a change Jayco made to the trailer, so this page does not report it as one and does not count it in the figure above.

A full 55-gallon fresh tank is about 457 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 37% of the 30QB’s 1,235 lb cargo capacity, leaving 778 lb (86 lb per rated berth). Across 47 Jay Feather floorplans the water share runs 23% to 43%, and 5 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Feather 171BH at 37% and Jay Feather 16RB at 40%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).