Politics | Ted Kennedy Feisty Kennedy Goes Sailing From hospital bed to schooner By Matt Cantor Posted May 22, 2008 6:34 AM CDT Copied Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., left, and his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, walk along a private pier with two family dogs as they return from sailing off the coast of Hyannisport, Mass., Wednesday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Just a few hours after leaving the hospital where he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, Ted Kennedy set sail off Cape Cod with his wife and their dogs, the Boston Globe reports. The senator-turned-skipper took his 50-foot schooner for a two-hour voyage on the Nantucket Sound. “It was wonderful to be on the water," the senator said on his return to the dock. "It's all it takes.” Read These Next A former NFL Pro Bowler has died at age 36. Major websites, apps affected by massive outage. Secret Service finds something strange pointed at Trump's plane. The massive AWS failure exposed a big problem with the internet. Report an error