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 Ex-political candidate mired in sex tape scandal now has legal woes. A megachurch pastor is going to jail for abusing a girl decades ago. Eisenhower Library boss is out after dispute over king's gift. Judge gives Combs prison. Report an error