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dates not found · Sandbank, Argyll, Scotland

David Boyd

Naval architect — Sandbank, Scotland

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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