Kennedy Sails in Race After Cancer Diagnosis
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HYANNIS PORT, Mass. — Senator Kennedy took the helm of his sailboat Mya yesterday and rode a stiff southern wind from Nantucket back to Hyannis in a regatta just a week after undergoing a brain biopsy that diagnosed him with cancer.
The Massachusetts Democrat made partially good on a pledge from the prior week by competing in the second half of the Figawi boat race between the island and Cape Cod. He missed Saturday’s outbound leg but got up early on Memorial Day and took a ferry across Nantucket Sound to compete in the return leg.
Also aboard for the more than two-hour journey were his wife, Vicki, Senator Dodd, a Democrat of Connecticut, and relatives including sons Patrick and Edward Jr. and stepdaughter Caroline Raclin.
