ed Hood was an innovative thinker who made his name in the sailing world, but he also felt that he could design and build a better waterjet-powered Downeast-style cruising yacht. Hood had spent a lifetime rethinking everything from sail in a successful defense of the 1974 America’s Cup. After 40 years of racing and building well-regarded racing and cruising sailboats, he nimbly crossed the boundary from sail to power in the 1990s.
