Rod Macalpine-Downie

Rod Macalpine-Downie
Born
James Roderick Macalpine-Downie

(1934-05-09)May 9, 1934
Appin, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
Died9 January 1986(1986-01-09) (aged 51)
EducationEton College
Known forYacht designer
Spouse
Shirley Macalpine-Downie
Children3

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

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

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