General Discussion

... 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.