Richard Cooper Newick

Richard "Dick" Newick (May 9, 1926, Hackensack, New Jersey – August 28, 2013, Sebastopol, California; age 87)[1][2][3] — more frequently known as Dick Newick — was a multihull sailboat designer.

He grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey.[2] At 10 he built two kayaks with his father and brother.[2] At 12 he designed and built two more by himself.[2] At 14 he sold kayak plans to a schoolmate for $5.[2] After school he spent some time in the United States Navy and earned a degree from the University of California, Berkeley.[2] He ran a boat shop, worked charitably with Quakers in Mexico, then explored Europe by kayak.[2] He sailed to St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands where he met and married his wife Patricia Ann Moe.[2] They lived in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts and Kittery Point, Maine and had two daughters, Lark Blair and Val Wright, both of whom have boat designs named after them.[2]

He believed in reincarnation, and said he had been a Polynesian boat builder in a previous life.[2] He lauded simplicity of design,[2] safe seagoing performance,[1] aesthetics,[1] and speed under sail.[2][4]

Newick was at the forefront of the 1960s revival of multihulls, helping to reform their aesthetic and influencing later designs such as the AC72.[2] He was inducted into the North American Boat Designers Hall of Fame in 2008.[2]

Designs

Newick completed around 140 boat designs during his career,[2] including:

  • Ay Ay - catamaran[5]
  • Cheers - proa
  • Trimarans:
    • Creative 42
    • Somersault 26
    • Third Turtle
    • Three Cheers 46[6]
    • Traveler 50
    • Tremolino - 23 ft (7.0 m) trimaran
    • Trine - 32 ft (9.8 m) trimaran sloop
    • Trice - 36 ft (11 m) trimaran sloop (built after Trine)
    • Tricia 36

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "About Dick Newick".
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Douglas Martin (September 15, 2013). "Dick Newick, Sailboat Design Visionary, Dies at 87". New York Times.
  3. ↑ "Hommage à Dick Newick". Archived from the original on 2014-12-05.
  4. ↑ "Dick Newick".
  5. ↑ Peter Marshall. "Multihulls-From the Stone Age to the New Age". Archived from the original on 2014-12-15.
  6. ↑ Jim Brown. The Case for the Cruising Trimaran.


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