Frederick Emmart Hood (May 5, 1927 — June 28, 2013) was an American yachtsman and naval architect.

He founded the sailmaker Hood Sails in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1952.

[2] 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.

His full service marina provided his customers with repairs for their yachts.

Construction operations of Little Harbor Yachts were moved to Northern Taiwan.