# Ted Hood

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{{Short description|American yachtsman (1927–2013)}}
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|name        = Frederick Emmart Hood
|image       = Ted_Hood_Portrait.jpeg
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|caption     = Hood in front of the Little Harbor facility in Portsmouth, Rhode Island {{circa|1990s}}
|birth_date  = {{birth date|mf=yes|1927|5|5}}
|birth_place = [Beverly, Massachusetts](/source/Beverly%2C_Massachusetts), U.S.
|death_date  = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2013|6|28|1927|5|1}}
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'''Frederick Emmart Hood''' (May 5, 1927 — June 28, 2013) was an American [yacht](/source/yacht)sman and [naval architect](/source/naval_architect). He founded the sailmaker Hood Sails in [Marblehead, Massachusetts](/source/Marblehead%2C_Massachusetts) in 1952. Hood Sails operated until purchased by [Quantum Sails](/source/Quantum_Sails) in 2017.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2017/07/10/quantum-sails-acquires-hood-sailmakers/ | title=Quantum Sails Acquires Hood Sailmakers >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News | date=July 10, 2017 }}</ref> Hood  founded Little Harbor Custom Yachts in 1959 and sold it to [Hinckley Yachts](/source/Hinckley_Yachts) in 1999.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/business/2001/10/21/hinckley-comes-about-from-sail/51298821007/ | title=Hinckley comes about ? From sail to the powerboat }}</ref> He won the [America's Cup](/source/America's_Cup) in 1974 skippering the yacht [Courageous](/source/Courageous_(yacht)), 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 [Ted Turner](/source/Ted_Turner), who beat him in it on his way to winning the [1977 America's Cup](/source/1977_America's_Cup).<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/sports/ted-hood-sailing-innovator-and-champion-yachtsman-dies-at-86.html?_r=1& Ted Hood, Champion of America’s Cup and Innovator in Yachting, Dies at 86], The New York Times, July 4, 2013</ref>

He built the Ted Hood Marine Complex in [Portsmouth, Rhode Island](/source/Portsmouth%2C_Rhode_Island) 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 [Hinckley Yachts](/source/Hinckley_Yachts).

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 [America's Cup Hall of Fame](/source/America's_Cup_Hall_of_Fame) in 1993, and the [National Sailing Hall of Fame](/source/National_Sailing_Hall_of_Fame) in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nshof.org/inductees/hood-ted/|title=Ted Hood 2011 Inductee |publisher=Nshof.org |date= |accessdate=April 11, 2020}}</ref>

==Designs==
*[AMF 2100](/source/AMF_2100)
*[Bristol 39](/source/Bristol_39)
*[Bristol 40](/source/Bristol_40)
*[Bristol 45.5](/source/Bristol_45.5)
*[Cape Dory 30](/source/Cape_Dory_30)
*[Hinckley 43 (Hood)](/source/Hinckley_43_(Hood))
*[Hinckley 43 (Hood)-2](/source/Hinckley_43_(Hood)-2)
*[Little Harbor 44](/source/Little_Harbor_44)
*[Westwind 24](/source/Westwind_24)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://tedhood.com/ Ted Hood homepage]
*[http://www.hood-sails.com Hood Sails]
*[http://sailboatdata.com/view_designer.asp?designer_id=26 Brief biography and list of yacht designs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529150447/http://sailboatdata.com/view_designer.asp?designer_id=26 |date=May 29, 2013 }}

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Category:1927 births
Category:2013 deaths
Category:America's Cup yacht designers
Category:Deaths from pneumonia in Rhode Island
Category:Sportspeople from Marblehead, Massachusetts
Category:Sailmakers
Category:1974 America's Cup sailors
Category:1977 America's Cup sailors
Category:1962 America's Cup sailors

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