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== Yacht design == |
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Most of Hood's sailing yacht designs were characterized by a shallow [[Draft (hull)|draft]], heavy [[Displacement (ship)|displacement]] hull form with a [[centreboard]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us - Fontaine Design Group- Custom Sailing Super Yacht Designer - Luxury Sailboats |url=https://fontainedesigngroup.com/about-us/ |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=fontainedesigngroup.com}}</ref> Known as the Hood delta hull design, it differed from convention keelboats in having a wider beam at the [[waterline]], and the [[ballast]] low in the hull rather than in the keel. |
Most of Hood's sailing yacht designs were characterized by a shallow [[Draft (hull)|draft]], heavy [[Displacement (ship)|displacement]] hull form with a [[centreboard]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us - Fontaine Design Group- Custom Sailing Super Yacht Designer - Luxury Sailboats |url=https://fontainedesigngroup.com/about-us/ |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=fontainedesigngroup.com}}</ref> Known as the Hood delta hull design, it differed from convention keelboats in having a wider beam at the [[waterline]], and the [[ballast]] low in the hull rather than in the keel.<ref group="handandeye">{{cite book |last1=Hood |first1=Ted |last2=Levitt |first2=Michael |title=Ted Hood : Through Hand and Eye : An Autobiographyan automio |date=2006 |publisher=Mystic Seaport |location=Mystic, Connecticut |isbn=0-939511-14-2 |access-date=10 February 2024}}</ref> |
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== Skippering wins == |
== Skippering wins == |
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Revision as of 15:10, 10 February 2024
Frederick Emmart Hood | |
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| Born | May 5, 1927 Beverly, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | June 28, 2013 (aged 86) |
Frederick Emmart Hood (May 5, 1927 — June 28, 2013) was a sailmaker, racing skipper, yacht designer, and entrepreneur.
Early life
Hood's father and grandfather were both engineers with many patents.
He served in the US Navy during World War II.[1] He graduated from the Wentworth Institute of Technology.[2]
Business
He started making sails at home around 1947.[3] Following the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season, he salvaged boats and resold them for a profit.[4]
1950: Hood became a sailmaker in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1950 and soon partnered with C. Raymond Hunt. In 1951 he developed and patented a cross-cut spinnaker design which remained the standard until the 1970s.
1952; founded the Hood Sails in Marblehead, Massachusetts, for a time the word's biggest sail maker.[5]
1959: founded Little Harbor Custom Yachts.
He was the first sailmaker to weave his own Dacron cloth.[6]
In the early 1980 he sold the sailmaking business to focus on building boats. His Little Harbor branded boats were built in Taiwan.
In 1985 he bought the site of a former US Navy fuel depot in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where he opened a marine service business. Starting in the late 1980s the market for new sailboats declined. Hood responded by moving to building powerboats, which were 100% of his sales by 1998.
2017: Hood Sails purchased by Quantum Sails.[7]
1999: sold Little Harbor Custom Yachts to Hinckley Yachts.[8]
Ted was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 1993, and the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2011.[9]
Yacht design
Most of Hood's sailing yacht designs were characterized by a shallow draft, heavy displacement hull form with a centreboard.[10] Known as the Hood delta hull design, it differed from convention keelboats in having a wider beam at the waterline, and the ballast low in the hull rather than in the keel.[handandeye 1]
Skippering wins
Hood was known for picking good crew and letting them get on with it.[11]
- 1959 New York Yacht Club Annual Cruise
- 1974 America's Cup on the yacht Courageous.
- 1968 Newport-Bermuda
- 1961 and 1971 Marblehead to Halifax Ocean Race
- Southern Circuit
Notable designs
- AMF 2100: 1980 keelboat
- Nefertiti: 1957 12-meter ocean racer
- Bristol 39: 1966 keelboat
- Bristol 40: 1970 keelboat
- Bristol 45.5: 1979 keelboat
- Hinckley 43 (Hood): 1976 keelboat
- Hinckley 43 (Hood)-2: 1979 keelboat
- Little Harbor 44: 1983 centreboard keelboat
- Paceship Westwind 24: 1966 centreboard keelboat
- American Promise: broke the solo circumnavigation record in 1986.
References
- ^ Staff, S. I. (5 July 2013). "Ted Hood, captain of 1974 America's Cup winner, dies at 86". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ "PASSINGS: Ted Hood". Los Angeles Times. 6 July 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ Sailmaking... A Man and His Craft, retrieved 10 February 2024
- ^ Lund, Erik. "A Skipper from Scratch". Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ "Hood, Ted". National Sailing Hall of Fame. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ "Ted Hood 1927 - 2013". Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ "Quantum Sails Acquires Hood Sailmakers >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News". 10 July 2017.
- ^ "Hinckley comes about ? From sail to the powerboat".
- ^ "Ted Hood 2011 Inductee". Nshof.org. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
- ^ "About Us - Fontaine Design Group- Custom Sailing Super Yacht Designer - Luxury Sailboats". fontainedesigngroup.com. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ "Frederick Hood". Herreshoff Marine Museum. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
External links
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