Jayco · 2025–2027Jay Feather 30RKB

The Jay Feather 30RKB is built around a freestanding kitchen island. Rather than a galley pinned to one wall, the rear of the trailer opens into an island-centred cook’s kitchen — more counter, more prep room and a social layout where the cook faces the living area — while a private bedroom sits up front. Twin slides push the walls out on both ends, so a 36-foot floorplan that nominally sleeps four lives like a much larger couples’ coach for two who treat cooking as the centre of camp.

Underneath is the full Jay Feather platform — 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 7,245-pound dry weight leaves 1,750 pounds of payload — among the most generous of the profiled Feathers — and the 11 cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator, 55-gallon fresh tank and residential finish carry over from the rest of the line. A molded front cap is standard on this plan, giving it the more finished nose of the larger Feathers.

It sleeps four but is really an island-kitchen couples’ trailer, near an MSRP of $52,600 before the usual dealer discounting. For two who want a true cook’s kitchen with an island rather than a wall galley, and the space that twin slides and 36 feet allow, the 30RKB is the kitchen-forward flagship of the rear-galley Feathers — a step up in size and finish from the twin-slide 27MK.

This floorplan has a verified factory record for 3 model years here, 2025 to 2027, and the specification does not hold still. Across those years dry weight ranges from 7,245 lb in 2025 to 7,265 lb in 2026, a spread of 20 lb; dry tongue weight ranges from 930 lb in 2025 to 985 lb in 2026, a spread of 55 lb. Even the published sleeping capacity moves (4 and 6). 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 30RKB 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 26% of the 1,750-pound cargo capacity, leaving the Jay Feather 30RKB with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 985 pounds is 14% of the 7,245-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 30RKB is towing 1,750 pounds more than its 7,245-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 30 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 30RKB sits 40 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 29QBH matches it exactly at 8,995 lb GVWR; and Jay Feather 32RL is 5 pounds heavier at 9,000 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 30RKB: the Coachmen Freedom Express Ultra Lite 259FKDS is 5 lb heavier and 6 ft shorter; the Jay Flight 335BHS is 5 lb heavier and 2 ft longer and sleeps 6 more; the Passport 2900BH is 5 lb heavier and 3 ft shorter and sleeps 6 more. 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 30RKB. 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.