Background
Spalding, Eliot was born on September 27, 1932 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Roland Sanders and Esther May (Amsden) Spalding.
Spalding, Eliot was born on September 27, 1932 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Roland Sanders and Esther May (Amsden) Spalding.
Student, Advanced Yacht Design, Westlawn, 1955. Student, University Massachusetts, 1956.
Yacht designer, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1955—1956. Naval architect John G. Alden Inc., Boston, 1956—1970, Harraseeket Marine, South Freeport, Maine, 1970—1976, Lowell & Spalding, South Freeport, 1976—1983. Principal, naval architect Eliot Spalding, NA, since 1983, marine surveyor, since 1952.
Consultant in field; instructor naval architecture Landing Boat School, Kennebunk, Maine, 1981—1983. With United States Army, 1953-1955, European Theatre of Operations.
Member of American Boat & Yacht Council, Society Small Craft Designers, Society Naval Architects & Marine Engineers.
Married Mary Susan Crabtree Spalding. Children: Samuel Lee, Andrew Eliot.