Dick Newick

[ProaSailor]

Sad to report that Dick Newick, multihull guru to the world and personal guru to me, passed away last night.

 

[kwhitmyre]

Dick, you made the world a better place... Sail on

 

[Trovão]

r.i.p. dick.

and peace to his family.

 

[kwhitmyre]

Back in June, at a gathering in France. Sitting with Marc Van Peteghem, Hanneke Boon, and James Wharram.

 

[eastbay]

Fair Winds, Dick. Your contributions will sail and be admired forever.

 

[Raz'r]

Fair winds.

 

[Tornadosail2012]

Fair winds. You brought much beautiful light into this world. I hope you find the same in the next.

 

[cynophobe]

Fair winds to a multihull pioneer and artist.He drew some beautiful boats.

 

[Rasputin22]

Dick was the finest mentor and friend one could hope to have. I learned some of life's most important and hardest lessons from him and he will be missed wherever the wind blows. His vessels will carry his spirit forever.

 

[unShirley]

During the 80s and early 90s I was a fanatical worshiper of Newick. His boats are graceful to look at and to sail. I did a 10 day cruise of the (SoCal) Channel Islands on a Val one time that included some of the best sailing of my life. As a young man, I dreamed of someday owning a Native 38. I actually came very close to pulling the trigger on Rusty Pelican in 1985.

Long will live the influence of Dick Newick on the Multihull World.

 

[cyclone]

I also dream of someday owning one of his beautiful creations. Timeless grace.

JT

http://www.stevencallahan.net/images/proboat/newick-dec2010.pdf

 

[rattus32]

Wow. One of my idols is gone. He brought beauty and speed to the seas.

Fair winds, Dick.

Mike

 

[jak3b]

R.I.P. Dick .

 

[hasybesma]

Thanks Dick, you definitely enriched, inspired and changed my view on sailing, sailboats and life in a way I'll never forget.

Cheers on you

Fair winds

 

[wraith]

Remember seeing 'Cheers' in Milbay Docks before the start of the OSTAR in 1968.

Impossibly beautiful, fragile, radical.

Sad loss..

 

[MoMP]

This is a really sad day for the multihull community. Actually, any community that loves simplicity, finesse, power and beauty. A man ahead of his time....

 

[jayson]

Rip

 

[sailone]

I met Dick while studying at the Landing School and became his apprentice. I then worked for Dick and he was probably the most exceptional boss I ever had. In his early 70's it was like he was a teenager. We designed and built a 16' trimaran with a crabclaw rig in his garage and then went out to do sea trials in 30 knots off Kittery Point.
He gave me a 40' Proa that he designed and spent two weeks to help me get it ready for one of my first offshore adventures. Fair winds and following seas Mr. Newick.

 

[Tucky]

I feel lucky to have known him and sailed on his boats. What I will always hold dear is how beautiful they are. He imagined and created something new that had never been before, but unlike the first cars or bridges or most of man's engineered creations, from the very beginning Dick's boats were beautiful, and expressed this new way of offering the ocean lightness and grace perfectly.

An extraordinary achievement from an extraordinary man to whom all who sail owe thanks. Fair winds, Dick.

Jesse Deupree