Frederick Emmart Hood (May 5, 1927 — June 28, 2013) was an American yachtsman and Naval architect. He started the company Hood Sails in Marblehead, Massachusetts which makes sails. He won the America's Cup 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 Ted Turner, who beat him in it on his way to winning the 1977 America's Cup.
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5 May 1927 Beverly, Massachusetts
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Died |
28 June 2013 (aged 86)
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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