Desmond Thomas Townson MNZM (16 March 1934 – 15 October 2008) was a New Zealand yacht designer. As a teenager he won the Tanner Cup in 1950, the nation's...

Townson (also Tounson) is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: Chris Townson (1947–2008), American musician and illustrator Des Townson...

The Zephyr was designed by Auckland New Zealand yacht designer Des Townson in 1956. Des built all the first hulls himself (numbers 1 to 233) in Pinus Radiata...

Starling is a New Zealand 9-foot-6-inch (2.90 m) sailing dinghy designed by Des Townson. The Starling class yacht was conceived and the design commissioned by...

lengths in a wide range of profiles. In 1958, New Zealand boat designer Des Townson started building 186 eleven-foot (3.35 m), cold-moulded Zephyr-class...

designer Des Townson, in the late 1950s for building in plywood. It is a fast and attractive two person jib headed fractional sloop rigged dinghy Des designed...

68, British businessman, chairman of Dundee United, prostate cancer. Des Townson, 74, New Zealand yacht designer, cancer. Tom Tresh, 70, American baseball...

football player and coach (died 2011) 16 March Ian McLean, politician Des Townson, yacht designer (died 2008) 17 March – Ian Barker, jurist (died 2022)...

1948 Not sailed due to polio epidemic 1949 William Nalder Nelson 1950 Des Townson Auckland 1951 Jimmy Gilpin Bay of Plenty 1952 Jimmy Gilpin Bay of Plenty...

business and to investment. Ratcliffe has two sons with previous wife Amanda Townson, and one daughter from a previous relationship with Italian tax lawyer...