Holman & Pye is a British naval architecture office built around Kim Holman and Don Pye, who joined him as a partner. David Cooper joined them later.
The office drew sturdy, sea-kindly cruising yachts, both one-offs and production designs for yards such as Bowman, Wauquiez, Seamaster, Hustler and Oyster. The Oyster-UFO 34 won its class in the 1979 Fastnet Race.
Its best-known design in offshore racing is the Rustler 36. In the 2018 Golden Globe Race, six of the eighteen entrants sailed this design, including the first three finishers, led by Jean-Luc Van Den Heede. Don Pye died on 20 August 2019, aged 93.
