Tom Wylie

A Bay Area designer whose one-designs — the Hawkfarm, the Wabbit, the Wylie 38 — became fixtures of Bay racing, and whose unstayed cat-rigged Wyliecats are a genuinely original late-century idea.

Practice

Wylie Design Group, Canyon, California

Bay fleets

Hawkfarm and Wabbit both raced as active one-design fleets on San Francisco Bay

Later work

The Wyliecat unstayed cat rig, from 1995

• 1977Hawkfarm 28
• 1979Wylie 34
• 1982Wylie Wabbit 24
• 1984Wylie 38/39
• 1995Wyliecat 30 — unstayed cat rig
• —Wyliecat 40