Wyliecat 30

Description

The Wyliecat 30 is a high-performance, ultralight cat-rigged daysailer/cruiser designed by Thomas Wylie (Thomas Wylie Design Group, San Francisco Bay Area) and built by Wyliecat Performance Yachts (also known as Wylie Cat Yachts) in the USA, with production starting around 1995. It features an innovative unstayed carbon fiber mast (freestanding, weighing only about 130 lbs all-up) with a wishbone boom, a large fully battened mainsail (no headsails or shrouds), a high ballast-to-displacement ratio via an external lead bulb keel, and an elliptical spade rudder, all emphasizing simplicity, ease of single- or shorthanded sailing, and impressive speed for its size; the boat is engineered to ABS standards with a lightweight composite hull (unidirectional roving with PVC and balsa coring), clean lines, hefty shoulders near the waterline, and accommodations suitable for weekend cruising including a double berth forward and quarter berths aft. Approximately 21–22 hulls had been built by around 2010 (with at least one more in process at that time), making it a relatively rare but successful niche model that has excelled in singlehanded and doublehanded races like the Singlehanded Farallones and Pacific Cup events.