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GiqueCee

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15. Ted Turner was also an avid sailor...

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Sat Jul 4, 2026, 09:02 AM

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... and 50-odd years ago, I met him briefly at Ted Hood's boatyard in Marblehead, Massachusetts where he'd had the Tenacious II hauled out for a bottom cleaning, I think it was. Nice enough guy, as I recall.
Hood also owned a sail loft where the finest sails in the world were made. That's how I happened to be there. I was doing technical blow-apart drawings of Hood foretriangle reefing systems and suchlike. And, no, I'm not much of a sailor, but I have hurled over the gunnels of some very prestigious yachts.

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