Tom Wylie has been a prolific local designer (Northern California) for many
years. We had him come speak several years ago as he prepped for a another
single handed Pacific Cup.
He was going for a little more comfort in his up coming attempt having built
a 34 with a fully gimbaled bunk sporting duplicate instrumentation displays
in the headboard. And a rare full galley in a race boat.
Production in Watsonville is low key enough you can still literally wander
in off the street and get a tour. Construction is very high tech and even
the big one dance about in their slips.
Phil
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Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:35 AM
Subject: RE: catalina27-talk: Re: catalina27-MOT- Wylie Cats & Wylie Wabbits
There is a Wylie Wabbit <http://www.wyliewabbit.org/> here in Louisville.
I
wonder if it is of the same linage as the Wylie Cat. I've only seen it
out
twice, once about three years ago in a blow when they all got very wet and
about 20 years ago in a 100 miler on Kentucky Lake.
Looking at both websites, a Tom Wylie designed both boats.
John Emmerich
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Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 11:58 AM
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Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Re: catalina27-OT- Wylie Cats
sorry about all the OT posts...it is winter, and I'm procrastinating,
putting off a whole weekend of grading.
I was talking to x-catalina27 owner Carl about these Wyliecats at KWRW.
They placed first and third and the main competition was with Chesapeake
sailor Bob Fleck and his S2 7.9 "Horizon," ...Bob is an extremely
successful and dedicated performance handicap sailor and "Horizon" has
brought home a huge amount of prize hardware, so it wasn't as if the
Wylies were racing in a slacker fleet.
Anyone know anything about the Wyliecats? Biggest questions are:
-does the wishbone have its own hoisting hadware, i.e., do you hoist the
wishbone then
the main?
-how in heck do you reef these? I know they reef late, the carbon mast
bends in a puff to depower, but at 35 these have got to be looking for a
way to depower.
here's a shot of them going DW...pretty interesting interpretations of the
two (very different( mains...
once more, sorry about being OT.
tf
