Ted Hood

Frederick Emmart Hood ( born May 5, 1927 in Beverly, Massachusetts, † June 28, 2013 in Middleton, Rhode Iceland ) was an American sailmaker, yacht designer and yachtsman. Hood grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts on the East Coast on, learned to sail as a child and founded his company in 1952 Hood Sailmakers.

Sailors' success

Ted Hood was manufactured in 1962 for the first time on the America's Cup scene with his yacht Nefertiti. He could not prevail despite good successes against the later U.S. titleholder Weatherly. In 1968 Hood his first race, the Newport - Bermuda Race. In 1971 he won the Marblehead - Halifax Race and took in 1974 with his yacht Robin on Southern Ocean Racing Circuit ( SORC ) part.

He recorded his biggest success in 1974 as a sailing yacht skipper of the defender ( defender ) Courageous in the 22nd America's Cup (designed by Sparkman & Stephens ) against the Australian yacht Southern Cross by Alan Bond. The Southern Cross was a very fast boat that had defeated the Baron Marcel Bich of France (France) clearly in the challenge round. Ted Hood defeated the Australian yacht in four races impressively in the past with a lead of 7 minutes and 19 seconds. As America's Cup skipper him a special gift for the selection and management of the crew members was said, which favored the error-free series against Southern Cross.

1976 designed and built by Ted Hood, the 12 - meter yacht Independence from aluminum and lost the defenders excretion regattas ultimately against Ted Turner with Courageous.

For his contributions to the America 's Cup, he was accepted in 1993 as Inductee (member) in the America's Cup Hall of Fame.

Entrepreneur

The sailing successes were also Hood's entrepreneurial success as a sailmaker and yacht designer. Thus emerged from his drawing board over 1,600 yacht designs. His most famous crack was the 60 - foot yacht American Promise, with the American Dodge Morgan 1985-86 with 150 days set a Weltumsegelungsrekord.

Awareness and economic breakthrough reached Ted Hood through the development of successful parallel runways spinnaker for the 12 - meter yachts of the America's Cup. After the cut of him mainsail and jibs were the standard. As the first sailmaker his company wove the processed sailcloth dacron itself Hood also developed the furling on, where the sail can be pulled into the main boom or the mast.

1987 Hood moved the headquarters of his company to Portsmouth, Rhode Iceland (USA). In 1999 he sold his company to Hinckley Yachts. Ted Hood is currently the head of his own independent yacht design offices, Ted Hood Yachts, LLC, which has its domicile in the Hinkley Yachts complex within the Melville Marina in Portsmouth, Rhode Iceland. Ted Hood Yachts sells eight standard motor yacht designs, consisting of two Coastal Explorer types and six yachts in the Expedition series. He also has two motor glider designs in the program which are suitable ocean. All yachts are manufactured in Xiamen ( China).