Myron Spaulding (October 28, 1905 – September 11, 2000) was an American sailor, yacht designer and builder and concert violinist in Sausalito, California.

Myron Spaulding was well known on the Sausalito waterfront in the mid and late 1900s, and exerted a strong influence on San Francisco Bay sailors during the days when boats were made of wood and built locally by expert craftsmen.

An accomplished concert violinist, Myron Spaulding performed professionally for many years, including with the San Francisco Symphony.

Following graduation, Spaulding played violin in the Fox Theatre's vaudeville orchestra, for silent movie houses, for the ballet, and eventually earned a seat with the San Francisco Symphony and performed with them until 1957.

During World War II, he worked at the Madden and Lewis Company shipyard in Sausalito building 60-foot (18 m) tow boats and 110-foot (34 m) subchasers, then spent a couple of years as a marine surveyor before leasing property near McNear's Beach in the late 1940s, where he repaired boats, continued with survey work and designed and built the 36-foot (11 m) Buoyant Girl.

After losing his lease to make way for development, he returned to Sausalito in 1951 and bought the present waterfront site of Spaulding Boatworks at the foot of Gate Five Road.

He wouldn't design something until he completely understood how it would handle the forces on it.Myron was a tremendous influence on every sailor active on San Francisco Bay in the first 60 or 70 years of the century—whether they knew it or not.

He was known to sailors around the world.... Spaulding's boat were characterized by a soundness and rationality of design and the best of materials, equipment, and workmanship, whether built by him or other builders....

Highly regarded and respected by the current crop of boat designers, Myron Spaulding was a mentor to several of them over the years and a counselor to local and visiting sailors from around the world.

He dispensed wisdom, advice, and expertise on a wide range of subjects to all who came.Myron was, "a complicated man; a seat-of-the-pants scientist; a synthesizer of ideas, possessed of an exhaustive memory and a remarkable charm, which he chose to use occasionally."Myron?

Aced the woodshop class at Polytechnic High ("By the time I had finished my bookends, that guy had built a boat."