Jayco Jay Feather · 202531BH

The Jay Feather 31BH 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 31BH, 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 14' 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.

For the 2025 model year Jayco published a 9,600-pound GVWR on a 8,010-pound dry weight, 1,590 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 1,085-pound dry tongue weight. That dry tongue is 14% 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 earliest 31BH model year with a verified factory record in this catalogue. Later years are linked at the foot of the page, each with its own published figures.

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.

2025 is the only model year this catalogue holds a verified factory record for the 31BH. 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.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 55-gallon fresh tank is roughly 29% of the 1,590-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 31BH with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 1,085 pounds is 14% of the 8,010-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 9,600-pound GVWR the 31BH is towing 1,590 pounds more than its 8,010-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 70 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 31BH sits 42 of 43 in the Jay Feather line: 9,600 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 32RL is 600 pounds lighter at 9,000 lb GVWR; and Jay Feather 32QBH matches it exactly at 9,600 lb GVWR.

1 other Jay Feather plan shares this floorplan’s 9,600 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 31BH: the Jay Flight 290RLS is 2 ft shorter and sleeps 4 fewer; the Puma 30RKQS is 1 ft shorter and sleeps 6 fewer; the Springdale 286BHU is 4 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 13 of them for the 31BH. 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.

Not published for this floorplan: slide count, axle count, awning, refrigerator, air conditioning. If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (95%) 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.