Frederick Emmart Hood (May 5, 1927 — June 28, 2013) was an American

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sman and

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. He founded the sailmaker Hood Sails in

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in 1952. Hood Sails operated until purchased by

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in 2017. Hood founded Little Harbor Custom Yachts in 1959 and sold it to

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in 1999. He won the

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in 1974 skippering the yacht Courageous, which was built at Minnefords Shipyard in City Island, New York, after which he built a what he believed to have been a faster yacht and sold Courageous to

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, who beat him in it on his way to winning the 1977 America's Cup. He built the Ted Hood Marine Complex in

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in 1985, where he moved Little Harbor Marine. His full service marina provided his customers with repairs for their yachts. Construction operations of Little Harbor Yachts were moved to Northern Taiwan. This operation began to design power boats exclusively due to changes in the boating market in the 1990s. In 1999 his company was sold to

. Ted then started another independent yacht design company, Ted Hood Yachts, LLC, located in the Hinckley Yachts complex of the Melville Marina in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Ted Hood Yachts has eight power yacht designs, including two Coastal Explorers and six Expedition series yachts, as well as two motor sailor designs on the market all with ocean-going capabilities. All of Ted Hood's yachts are currently under production in Xiamen, China. Ted was inducted into the

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in 1993, and the

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in 2011.

Designs

* AMF 2100 * Bristol 39 * Bristol 40 * Bristol 45.5 * Cape Dory 30 *

Hinckley 43 (Hood) The Hinckley 43 (Hood) is an American sailboat that was designed by Ted Hood and first built in 1976. The design was originally marketed by the manufacturer as the Hinckley Hood 43 and later as just the Hinckley 43, but is now usually referred ...

Hinckley 43 (Hood)-2 The Hinckley 43 (Hood) is an American sailboat that was designed by Ted Hood and first built in 1979. The design was originally marketed by the manufacturer as the Hinckley 43, but is now usually referred to as the Hinckley 43 (Hood)-2 to diff ...

* Little Harbor 44 * Westwind 24

References

External links

Ted Hood homepageHood SailsBrief biography and list of yacht designs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hood, Ted 1927 births 2013 deaths America's Cup yacht designers Deaths from pneumonia in Rhode Island People from Marblehead, Massachusetts Sailmakers US Sailor of the Year 1974 America's Cup sailors 1977 America's Cup sailors 1962 America's Cup sailors