Rod Macalpine-Downie

James Roderick Macalpine-Downie[1] (9 May 1934 – 9 January 1986), known as Rod Macalpine-Downie, was an English multihull sailboat designer and sailor.[2][3]

Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald James Macalpine-Downie (died 1958), M.B.E., Royal Tank Regiment,[4] of a landed gentry family of Appin,[5] he was a King's Scholar at Eton with a focus on biology, but seriously considered a career as a concert violinist.[2] Macalpine-Downie and his wife, Shirley Agnes (née Reid), had two sons and a daughter.[6]

  1. ^ Making Waves: Michigan's Boat-Building Industry, 1865-2000, Scott M. Peters, 2015, p. 204
  2. ^ a b "Sailing Catamarans and Trimarans – History of Multihulls Part 2". 17 January 2014. Archived from the original on 28 June 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ Stephen Pullinger. "Sir Timothy Colman's memories of Crossbow 40 years on". Anglia Afloat. Archived from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  4. ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 1973, p. 1390
  5. ^ Burke's Family Index, ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Peerage Limited, 1976, p. 47
  6. ^ "MACALPINE-DOWNIE - In Memoriam Announcements - Telegraph Announcements". 31 March 2019. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2022.