A. K. Balfour

Native of Glasgow, Scotland, Balfour was apprenticed to Harland and Wolff at Sandbank. He later joined Alexander Robertson and Sons and worked with David Boyd, the designer of the Twelve Metre ‘Sceptre’. He returned to Harland and Wolff as Yard Manager and in 1947 became manager of Berthon Boat Company at Lymington.