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  • n  a maker of sails

  • He has to be something of a "boatbuilder, mechanic, electrician, navigator, sailmaker, rigger, doctor, lawyer, pilot and philosopher.
  • Aaron Kane was born on an island off Shelter Point, Cape Cod, a well-meaning, red-headed boy who grew up in the great days of clipper ships, was apprenticed to a sailmaker, ran .
  • A linen military jacket, an overdyed print shirt and canvas pants with a sailmaker's topstitch evoke what Heyerdahl might have worn if he set sail today.
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  • Yachtsman, sailmaker Ted Hood dies at 86
    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Ted Hood, a yachtsman, yacht designer and builder, and sailmaker from Rhode Island who captained the winner of the 1974 America's Cup, has died at the age of 86.
    July 5, 2013 - The Associated Press via Yahoo! Sports
  • Hood, captain of '74 America's Cup winner, dies
    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Ted Hood, a yachtsman, yacht designer and builder, and sailmaker from Rhode Island who captained the winner of the 1974 America's Cup, has died at the age of 86.
    July 5, 2013 - Sports Illustrated
  • Ted Hood, captain of 1974 America's Cup winner, dies at 86
    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Ted Hood, a yachtsman, yacht designer and builder, and sailmaker from Rhode Island who captained the winner of the 1974 America's Cup, has died at the age of 86.
    July 5, 2013 - Sports Illustrated

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