Jac M Iversen was born in 1884 in Norway. In 1907 he started his yacht design and boat building in the town Soon in Norway. He stayed in Norway until 1926 and during that time he designed now less then 400 yachts.

In 1909 John Alden started his design office and very soon his love for fishermen type of schooners became clear in his designs. John Alden also built a series of schooner yachts for himself, all named MALABAR. The first one was built in 1921. In 1923 his MALABAR IV won the Bermuda Race, and his older MALABARS took no less then three of the first five places in the race! In 1932 his MALABAR X set the record for the same race followed by three other MALABARS over the finishing line.
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Johan Anker was born 1871 in Norway. He soon took to yacht design and building as his great interest in life. In 1905 he bought in to a small boat building yard named Jensens Yard. It now changed name and became the famous Anker & Jensen Yard. Most of the boat designing was done by Anker and the boat building was done mostly by Jensen.

Knud Reimers was born in Denmark in 1906. He was taught boat building and design at the German yard Krupp-Germania Werft in Kiel in the 1920’s. one of his mentors was the famous yacht designer Henry Rasmussen from Abeking & Rasmussen in Bremen, Germany. Together they shared the idée and dream of building faster sailing yachts.