Alexander Robertson & Sons' principal postwar designer, and the man who drew two America's Cup challengers from a yard on the Holy Loch.
- Yard
- Joined Alexander Robertson & Sons at Sandbank at the end of 1929, having answered an advertisement in the Glasgow Herald; the yard ran from 1876 to 1980
- Cup
- Designed the 12-Metre challengers Sceptre (1958) and Sovereign (1963)
- Classes
- The Loch Long One Design and the Piper One Design
- 1937Circe — 6-Metre; won the 1938 Seawanhaka Cup
- 1957Lone Fox — 65-ft ketch
- 1958Sceptre — 12-Metre
- 1963Sovereign — 12-Metre
Sourcing notes & unresolved questions
- Birth and death years not found.
- Not to be confused with a Scottish banker and sailor of the same name who died in 2016.
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