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Richard Newick’s trimarans have become the stuff of legend. But is their number limited to the existing collectors’ fleet, or are we likely to see them back in build in boatyards? Only the future will tell, but we have wanted to see the launch of a restored Native 38 model to get a positive response to this hypothesis and proceed to test it, (almost) as though it were a new model.

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The Wizard of Maine (Newick’s nickname) was an Ocean Surfer!

In 1979, following receipt of the order for Moxie (the 50 foot winner of the 1980 Transat and Newick’s third trimaran after Gulfstreamer and Rogue Wave), Dick left St.Croix in the Virgin Islands where he had honed the naval architect skills which had given rise to his first trimarans. He later moved to Martha’s Vineyard where he was to encourage architects, sailors and builders along the US east coast, the creative melting pot of the period. By the late seventies, Newick was universally known among the racing elite (specifically American and French) around whom there gravitated a few specialist journalists and a core of enlightened talent. Newick only enjoyed partial racing success however, as this wasn’t necessarily the architect’s primary aim. For him it was more a question of personal accomplishment. His visionary interpretation of designs originating in Polynesia, both intuitive and calculated, were combined with real on-water experience (in 1955 Dick Newick toured northern Europe by kayak!). The immediate and spectacular use of possibilities offered by the Gougeon brothers’ new West System technique (wood-molded ...

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Responsive Damfino is a classic Newick tri

From the Morris 36 to mega-W-class beauties, a growing fleet of elegant day sailers with minimal accommodations reflect the resurgence in demand for boats honed to make fun, fast jaunts or quickly reach and explore favorite cruising nooks for a weekend. Typically, though, these boats have reverted to the classic aesthetics of western yachting’s past eras. Shedding new light on this field comes the design Spark , realized in the recently built Damfino , from Dick Newick’s innovative design board. Newick also values Western traditions. “I’ve always been a great disciple of L. Francis Herreshoff’s writings and designs,” he says. He’d owned a Herreshoff kayak early in his career, and even the design for Spark , which Newick calls “a three-hulled Rozinante , a gentleman’s day sailor,” tracks L. Francis’s wake.

If modern multihulls can claim to be classics, Newick has contributed more than his share. His shapely plywood trimarans have remained in charter service since their launchings in the 1960s. His fleet of historic racing machines includes Moxie, with which the late Phil Weld won the 1980 Observer Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race (OSTAR), and the Atlantic Proa Cheers, a boat form he invented. Newick virtually created the fully sculpted multihull, too, not the easiest to build with nary a straight line in sight, but as organically functional as, and at home with, dolphin and birds of the pelagic realm.

For Newick, getting a boat to feel alive at sea, at ease with wind, wave and pure speed, has always trumped loading it down with what he calls “all the modern inconveniences.” Indeed, Damfino , the elegant prototype of the Spark design built by Jim Conlin, lacks not only air conditioning and fridge, but also inboard engine, windlass and even stays. From her demountability for transport, self-tacking sails, big comfy cockpit, and a sturdy, skeg-hung rudder to daggerboard canted forward to reduce tip vortices, Damfino combines practicality with performance optimization.

The 65-year-old Conlin is no snubber of tradition either, but his Alberg 35 had become a bit much for day sailing. Conlin saw in Spark something that didn’t require athleticism or difficulty to get underway quickly or to make lots of knots. Like Rozinante , Damfino would prove easy on the eye and across the sea.

Conlin had considered production boats, like the Ian Farrier-designed F-series trimarans, but found Spark ‘s hull shapes and weight less compromised by the folding systems F-boats employ. He used glass and epoxy over Core-Cell foam core, with carbon in the cross-arms (akas) and carbon masts to create a boat less than a ton empty, 3,000 pounds loaded, so Damfino slips along effortlessly.

The main hull is classic Newick, with springy sheer, well-flared bow, and very slim lines. Newick chose to mirror Rozinante ‘s canoe stern, though he prefers employing transoms, but all his boats are very V-d aft and nearly double ended anyway. The amas, or outer hulls, reveal a more notable Newick evolution. His early amas all featured lots of sheer and rocker, with sections sharply V-d and volumes that would float a bit more than the total boat’s weight if the ama could be pressed under water. His recent Traveler 48 showed influence from Euro-racers whose amas became as long and straight as pointy-ended cigars and displaced up to twice the boat’s weight, but they were honed for power reaching and flying the main hull in winds in the teens. They give a much bouncier ride close reaching and upwind. The Travelers are less extreme, but Damfino devolves further. The amas submerged would still displace a hefty 140 percent of total boat weight to maximize power and keep the akas well above water, but Newick uses almond-shaped sections (points down) and has returned to using significant rocker on the ama bottoms to soften the ride, particularly upwind, and sweeping sheer to keep the ends up. Tiny transoms should not drag water because, by the time they are depressed, the boat will be going quite fast, enough to avoid it.

Damfino can sail up to the wind speed from 2 to 12 knots, and in stiff winds can clock 10 to 13 knots to windward and close reaching the high teens off the wind. As the boat accelerates into the teens through oncoming chop, the windward bow wave can slash off the main hull’s flare and get blown back up and to leeward, “giving you the firehose experience” in the cockpit says Conlin, but one must accept that typical cost of speed, and Conlin will soon fit a dodger. Peter Johnstone grew up with performance boats, being part of the Johnstone clan that created J-boats. As principle of Gunboat catamarans, he’s also a veteran performance-multihull sailor. After a shakedown spin on Damfino , he concludes: “On a reach, the thing was just magical. It was wet, but as you would expect at that size (and doing 18 knots). It has a comfy cockpit and did everything it was meant to do &mdash a simple, comfortable, fast day sailer for an older guy who’s going to be short handed.”

Simple sail handling is aided by self-tacking sails on unstayed carbon sticks. Newick developed his cat-yawl rig starting with an earlier 36 footer White Wings . Damfino ‘s 35-pound mizzen is a rather conventional full-battened sail with wishbone boom, which helps control twist when using a sheet to the centerline. The 130-pound mainmast supports a modified Lungstrom rig, first developed in the 1930s, with double-panel mainsail set on sail tracks. Sailing downwind, one can open the mainsail to fly its port and starboard panels wing and wing. Conlin can stretch the windward panel out and forward as he bears off, allowing the crew to tack downwind, a preferred tactic for speed and comfort, even for quite modest performers, but one Newick thinks would be enhanced using a whisker pole. High-molecular-weight plastic mast bearings allow the crew to easily rotate the mast to reef, even in heavy airs, but as the sail rolls, it does shift the center of effort well forward, making the mizzen essential to maintain balance. A mizzen staysail, which can be turned upside down to form a jib on the foremast, would increase horsepower even more, especially in very light airs, but Conlin finds the boat’s performance quite adequate without them.

Like all prototypes, Damfino has had to face her compromises and teething aches. He’s had to tune the stiffness of the vertical carbon battens on the main. Cutting and setting sails to accept what can become several feet of bend in the unstayed mast also is an art. Conlin acknowledges that you really don’t want to be caught having to short tack out a channel, because the boat needs to get up to speed to come around. The flat mizzen can help stall a tack by pushing the boat back into the wind, so Conlin has learned to sometimes ease it off. The amas also sit 2 inches lower than designed, says Conlin. On a racing machine, if the boat could remain perfectly balanced at rest, the amas would both hover well above the water. In reality, the racer leans over on one side, then flops over as the boat sways about, a discomfort for cruisers but essential when tacking an extremely wide boat so that it doesn’t have to drag its long leeward ama around in a big arc before the ama lifts and allows the boat to come off on the new board. Damfino ‘s amas steady her at anchor, but Conlin plans to raise them on future boats to aid tacking.

As for cruising, some sailors will always wince at the paucity of staterooms in this 28-footer, but even on his smallest designs, Newick always has supplied the essentials to an offshore crew &mdash a secure and generous berth, place to navigate and galley space. Damfino features a big double berth and enough counter space for a small cooker and compact nav station, which these days may require not much more than a GPS. Conlin plans little cruising, but Johnstone concludes, “I could see cruising that boat in the Exumas for a month or two, no problem,” a trip enhanced by the boat’s minimal working draft of 2 feet (depth of rudder; board up). He adds, “The boat has a lot of room below,” and though that may be a relative measure, Newick echoes quite a rational cruising brief: “I could spend summers on that boat alone or take Pat (his wife) on weekend cruises.”

Newick would not hesitate to take the boat offshore to Bermuda, either. Although small for such purpose, Damfino is a powerful successor to Newick’s famous 31-foot Val trimarans, which are not much bigger and have sailed across oceans many times, including one placing second in the storm-ridden 1976 OSTAR, finishing right behind a maxi-racer (and penalized 236-foot schooner). There’s good reason Newick was inducted into the North American Boat Designers Hall of Fame, and Damfino is sure to spark continued interest in all his boats.

Steve Callahan is a sailor, naval architect and author of the book Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea , which tells the tale of his struggle for survival after his boat sank in the Atlantic. He is also co-author of Capsized.

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Boat Profile

Tremolino Trimaran

What’s old is new again

From Issue Small Boats Annual 2009

A h…the Kansas prairie. A land of wide-open spaces that evokes images of cattle drives, farmers on tractors, wheat fields, and the world-renowned Dorothy and Toto. This isn’t the type of place I would have thought to look for an example of designer Dick Newick’s Tremolino, a fast and futuristic-looking trimaran. Yet, on a quiet reservoir known as Cheney Lake just south of Wichita, BLUE MOON quietly awaits—poised for speed. Who’d ’a’ thunk it?

The Wichita area is a hotbed for aerospace technology. That may explain the high-tech-looking trimarans and catamarans that abound on Cheney Lake. Now we know how rocket scientists have their fun. It took BLUE MOON’s builder and owner, Lew Enns, and his good friend, Tom Welk (neither of whom is a rocket scientist), several years of part-time work to complete her. Their hard work paid off, though; she’s head-and-shoulders above the rest on Cheney Lake.

Please don’t send letters. This truly is a handmade wooden boat. While she may look like something out of science fiction, there’s much less new technology at work here than one might guess. In fact, its core technology has been around for millennia.

The Dick Newick–designed Tremolino blends ancient technologies with high-tech design and construction methods. The strip-built trimaran gives even the less-experienced builder a chance to own this fast and fun-to-sail craft.

Dick Newick says, “ Thousands of years ago when early Europeans had trouble crossing small bodies of water, the people of Southeast Asia developed craft with more than one hull which they used to explore and settle the widely separated islands of the Pacific. If they had ever been motivated to leave this paradise for a cold climate, they might have astonished the natives of Europe long before Magellan ‘discovered’ the Pacific and their light multihulls that easily sailed three times as fast as his heavy vessels. The rest of us are slowly relearning what those ‘ignorant savages’ knew a long time ago. CHEERS! to those salty seamen.”

First-time trimaran builders Lew Enns and Tom Welk, while perhaps not as salty as our Southeast Asian predecessors, have done an outstanding job in constructing BLUE MOON. Lew studied other designers’ trimarans before settling on Newick’s Tremolino, but most of them used parts from beach catamarans, giving them a patched-together, discordant look to his eye. Tremolino is a unified original. Lew says, “I really like the looks of Newick designs. They seem like works of art.” Another important consideration for Lew and Tom was determining where the boat could be built. They wanted a design that could fit inside a 24′-long, two-car garage. The 23′ 6″ Tremolino “just fit” when set at a diagonal.

Building BLUE MOON was a community effort. Tom Welk (left) joined family members and others to help owner Lew Enns (right) with construction. Lew’s son, Greg, designed a logo for added panache.

Lew and Tom ripped out miles of 3⁄ 8″ 3⁄ 4″ Western red-cedar strips in preparation for building the hulls. The stock was only 8′ or 10′ long, so they scarfed the pieces to get the necessary length prior to ripping. During the earliest stage of BLUE MOON’s construction, a new home was being built near Lew’s place, and the owner graciously saved the offcuts and scraps for his neighbors’ use. Lew and Tom recycled these materials, turning throwaways into their strongback, some of the molds, cross supports for the hulls, and a variety of jigs.

The Tremolino is a trimaran with a large, main hull, called a vaka, bounded by two smaller hulls known as amas. The cross beams that connect the three members are known as akas. Since the amas are the smallest hulls, and since they were to be built in halves on female molds (which can produce an outer hull that is truer and easier to fair), they seemed less daunting to Lew and Tom. So that’s where the builders began.

Two outer hulls, called amas, give balance to the central hull, known as the vaka. Fore-and-aft crossbeams (akas) tie the boat together. Unlike a monohull, the vaka is not designed to be stable without the support of the amas.

No lofting is required to take the Tremolino plans to full scale; molds need only be traced and cut from the full-sized patterns. Lew and Tom were faithful to Newick’s plans, which specify stations spaced 12″ apart. After sheathing the molds with waxed paper, Lew and Tom laid in epoxied strips and temporarily fastened them with 1⁄4″ staples (with waxed ends) that could be set about 1⁄8″ proud for easy removal. The builders averaged six to ten strips per evening. After building the first set of ama halves, they reversed the molds to build the opposing, complementary ones.

In contrast to the amas, the vaca was built on a male mold setup. While the strips went on more easily than they did on the female molds of the amas, fairing was much harder. Tom passed this friendship test with flying colors, working many evenings alongside Lew. There were more tests to come, especially when lining up holes in ama halves to ensure a perfect fit in final assembly. Here, Lew deemed Tom a saint, as his stalwart friend endured hours of the measuring, fitting, and cussing that went into this critical step.

The akas were laid out on a strongback, which established bends in each one according to dimensions shown on the plans. This bending took the Douglas-fir almost to the breaking point—but designer Newick’s procedure worked well, and the completed akas came out fine. The cabin sides, foredeck, cockpit floor, and bulkheads are of okoume plywood. BLUE MOON’s cabintops are strip- built, and all three hulls are sheathed in 10-oz ’glass and epoxy.

Placing the akas at the correct attitude through the inboard ama halves was one of the most critical opera- tions of BLUE MOON’s construction. Lew and Tom used a profile of each outboard ama half to ensure that both the angle and the depth of the akas were dead-on.

Dick Newick is one of the true pioneers of trimaran design in the western world (see WB No. 202, “Multihull Pioneers”). His designs take to the water like a feather drifting on a summer breeze. They look like they are moving fast even when moored. Years ago, when I was a design student at The Landing School in southern Maine, Dick Newick came to introduce us to the basics of trimaran design. His philosophy of simplicity and lightness, lightness, lightness impressed me greatly then, as it still does. His designs are not only fast (winning ocean races far and wide), but all of them are extraordinarily beautiful. In a way, BLUE MOON is high-functioning sculpture. If you are lucky enough to build a Tremolino, I hope you will follow Lew and Tom’s good example in adhering closely to Newick’s design.

If, like me, you are accustomed to sailing a monohull, this boat’s speed will knock your socks off. Kept light, she will attain velocities that one can only dream about with an average 24′ daysailer, and she will do it with just a few degrees of heel. Attaining these speeds with a monohull would require a perfect close reach heeled down on her ear. For me, less heeling means expending less energy. For some, it may also mean fewer bouts with seasickness.

The amas, though usually waterborne, provide the vaca with superb balance and agility, like a figure skater with arms in graceful extension. Because she’s a trimaran, BLUE MOON doesn’t turn on a dime, but she tacks without the awkward bumpiness associated with a catamaran.

The amas were constructed in halves in a female mold. After gluing up strips for both parts of one ama, molds were reversed on the strongback to build a complementary pair.

Most owners understand that every boat is a collection of strengths and compromises. Boats that are easy and fun to use are seldom as easy to build. BLUE MOON fits that description. Another downside is that the Tremolino is not easily trailerable, although Lew and Tom are working on a customized trailer to make transport a bit easier. For now, though, she clips across Cheney Lake at a full run, or basks in her shady slip. She’s the queen of the Kansas prairie and an icon of the Newick fleet.

Tremolino is a sophisticated modern sailing machine whose construction is within reach of the dedicated amateur. The plans include full-sized patterns, so no lofting is necessary.

This Boat Profile was published in Small Boats 2009 and appears here as archival material. If you have more information about this boat, plan or design – please let us know in the comment section.

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I have two of these fantastic boats and both are for sale.

I was looking for one of these. Are yours for sale?

I always wanted a Newick Trimaran and corresponded with Newick several times. I was at the Gougeon Brothers shop several times while they were building Rogue Wave and saw her, finished, sitting quietly on the banks of the Saginaw River awaiting delivery. I have a copy of Nautical Quarterly 2 which has a long feature article on Newick and his career and later a long section on Rogue Wave. God knows what it would cost to get one today.

I also own Nautical Quarterly No.21 with a feature article on Phil Bolger and his boats, several letters with Bolger and Harold Payson, and several Bolger books. There are no Newick books, alas. I built two Bolger boats, a Teal and a June Bug. The June Bug building involved a tech at the Gougeon Brothers and humorous exchange. The short version is it wound up being built of 1/4 inch luan and has no fasteners left in the hull. Two Bolgers and no Newicks is an indication of my construction prowess.

The only thing about this boat that bothers me is the lack of usable space; the akas are at such a steep angle, the trampolines are almost useless, and the front/rear cabins cannot be used either (unless you want to slide off into the ocean). I would feel claustrophobic (trapped?) in this boat.

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Make & Model

Newick Val 31 Trimaran

MEASUREMENTS

Description.

A good example of this classic Dick Newick design, the Val 31 is an easy and rewarding boat to sail and guaranteed to make you smile. Dick Newick famously commented. “I can give you 20 knots and a snug place to eat and sleep, but I can’t give you luxury and performance and low cost at the same time; nobody can”. The Val 31 is a well proven design with an enviable track record for quick and safe ocean crossing. The interior layout is perfectly comfortable for the singlehander with an additional crew berth forward, though entirely unsuitable for a family over a wet weekend! All sail handling can be done from the safety of the cockpit and a lot of thought has been given to the ergonomics of handling the sheets and halyards. The cockpit is deep and safe and inspires great confidence in bad weather offshore.

Viewing by appointment through our Suffolk Office 01473 659 681.

Accommodation

The accommodation offers two berths in two cabins. In the aft cabin, there is a comfortable single berth with marine toilet under. There is a removable chart table and full navigational instrumentation. A small galley comprises a sink with manually pumped water supply and a small gas hob. 50 litre freshwater capacity in two jerrycans. There is stowage space under the berth and also under the cockpit, together with shelving and other stowage above the berth. There is access to the forward cabin from either the cockpit or foredeck. There is a single berth forward with stowage under. Stowage in the forecabin under the cockpit for fenders and warps.

Mechanical Systems

Located on a lifting bracket to port, Marine 6hp single cylinder outboard engine (new 2013). Hand start. Remote 5 gallon fuel tank. Forward and reverse gears. The engine has been fully serviced from new. Maximum speed under power 6 knots. Cruising speed 4 knots. Range under power is about 80 miles. Running time to date approximately 50 hours. Annually winterised and serviced.

Electrical Systems

12 volt 120 amp hour battery (2015)
Solar panel
Solar panel regulator
12 volt fluorescent lighting in both cabins
LED back-up lighting
12 volt switch panel
Battery monitor

Spars & Sails

Fractionally rigged sloop. Anodised aluminium mast and boom. The mast is rotatable for added performance, though kept in a fixed position by the present owner. Stainless steel standing rigging (2014). Terylene running rigging (renewed as required). Slab reefing fully battened mainsail (3 x reefs) with Harken cars (2010). Harken headsail furling system (2014). Two Harken 35.2 self tailing sheet winches (2010). Harken 35.2 self tailing halyard winch (2015). Harken mainsheet system (2014). All sail handling is done from the safety of the deep cockpit and has been ergonomically designed for ease of use. There are running backstays for improved windward performance, but these are not necessary for the integrity and safety of the rig.

Mainsail - Ullman - 2010 - good
Furling genoa - Ullman - 2010 - good
No 4 furling jib - good
Spinnaker - good

Deck Equipment

Stainless steel pulpit with guardwires and netting
Anchor with chain and warp
Large mooring cleat forward with fairleads port and starboard
Trampolines port and starboard
Liferaft cradle
Various warps and fenders

Navigation Equipment

Plastimo steering compass (2015)
Nasa Clipper Duet depth, boatspeed and log (2013)
Nasa Clipper windspeed and direction (2013)
Nasa Clipper closehauled repeater (2013)
Nasa Clipper Navtex
Nasa SSB receiver
Garmin 556 chart plotter
Garmin GP72 GPS
Standard Horizon DSC VHF radio
Simrad TP 32 autopilot
Furuno radar
Echomax radar target enhancer
Nasa Clipper AIS receiver
Prosser barometer
Masthead (LED tricolour) and deck level navigation lights

Safety Equipment

Manual bilge pump

Construction

Built in 1982 by Daffy Duck Marine to a design by Dick Newick. White painted GRP hull and amas with style stripes. White GRP superstructure with grey painted non-slip to deck. The hull, superstructure, beams and amas are single skin GRP with Kevlar reinforcement. There is a watertight bulkhead under the cockpit separating the forward and aft cabins, and another watertight bulkhead forward The cockpit seating and seat backs are a later addition and are built in foam sandwich. All interior woodwork was removed by the present owner and replaced with lightweight carbon/foam sandwich panelling. The beams and amas are demountable to allow road transportation or by shipping container (mast length is 39ft). Centre self draining cockpit. Lifting skeg hung rudder. Tiller steering. Lifting centreboard. The hulls were epoxied in 2010 as a preventative measure. New chainplates fitted 2014. 2012 survey.

Additional Comments

Having bought her in 2012, the owner refitted Aerodrama with a new interior, full electronics package, new Harken headsail furling and Harken mainsheet system. In particular, the cockpit has been optimised for easy sail handling and comfortable sailing. He has cruised the East Coast, South Coast, West Country and Southern Ireland, mostly singlehanded, and she has proved to be a capable, seaworthy and fast boat. Top speed this year was 18 knots with the boat fully loaded for a two week trip to Ireland. In light trim, 20 knots is achievable in the right conditions. The designer, the late Dick Newick, was a master at his craft and his Val 31 design has proved to be fast and seaworthy, with several OSTAR races completed safely despite appalling conditions.

Engine Location

Engine Horse Power

Engine Hours

Max Speed Knots

Cruising Speed

Propeller Type

Engine Count

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hull Material

Dick Newick

Engine Type

Engine Year

Displacement(kgs)

1200 kilograms

Lifting Keel

Water Tanks Capacity

Fuel Tanks Capacity

0.76 meters

ABOUT NEWICK VAL 31 TRIMARAN

The Newick Val 31 Trimaran is 31 feet long and has a 25 feet beam and a draft of 1.52 meters. This 1982 Petrol Newick Val 31 Trimaran powered by Mariner 6 with 6.0 horsepower is capable of reaching a maximum speed of 6 knots and a cruising speed of 4 knots. The Newick Val 31 Trimaran is made of fiberglass.

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Dick Newick
About Dick Newick. 1926..2013. Tremolino 23' trimaran for the masses PLANS FOR SALE. email for Plans. Dick Newick "People sail for fun and no one has yet convinced me that it's more fun to go slow than it is to go fast." CHEERS 1968 OSTAR proa. Ocean Surfer 40' CSTAR trimaran. Moxie 50' OSTAR trimaran. Val 31' trimaran. All Designs.
Dick Newick Boat Designs, complete list*
Design Plan Name Boat Name(s) Description Length; Argonauta: Argonauta: folding trimaran: 27: Ay-Ay: Ay-Ay: catamaran: 40: CHEERS: CHEERS: 1968 OSTAR Atlantic proa ...
Echo II trimaran
2002 Newick ECHO II (brokerage, specs). Mockingbird was meticulously built in Virginia by the multihull specialists at Lombardi Yachts and launched in 2002.. Custom Variations from Newick's stock Echo II Design. The carbon fiber mast and boom were especially designed and built to avoid the need for any diamond stays and spreaders.
Newick Trimaran boats for sale
Clear Filter Make / Model: All Newick Category: Sail - Trimaran. Location. By Radius. By Country. country-all. All Countries. Country-SX. Sint Maarten (Dutch part) Country-US. United States. Country-VI. U.S. Virgin Islands. All. All 25 miles 50 miles 100 miles 200 miles 300 miles 500 miles 1000 miles 2000 miles 5000 miles. from your location ...
Boat Review by Multihulls World of: Trimaran Native 38
The Wizard of Maine (Newick's nickname) was an Ocean Surfer! In 1979, following receipt of the order for Moxie (the 50 foot winner of the 1980 Transat and Newick's third trimaran after Gulfstreamer and Rogue Wave), Dick left St.Croix in the Virgin Islands where he had honed the naval architect skills which had given rise to his first trimarans.
Responsive Damfino is a classic Newick tri
Newick would not hesitate to take the boat offshore to Bermuda, either. Although small for such purpose, Damfino is a powerful successor to Newick's famous 31-foot Val trimarans, which are not much bigger and have sailed across oceans many times, including one placing second in the storm-ridden 1976 OSTAR, finishing right behind a maxi-racer ...
Richard Cooper Newick
Richard "Dick" Newick (May 9, 1926 in Hackensack, New Jersey - August 28, 2013 in Sebastopol, California) — more frequently known as Dick Newick — was a multihull sailboat designer.. He grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey. At 10 he built two kayaks with his father and brother. At 12 he designed and built two more by himself. At 14 he sold kayak plans to a schoolmate for $5.
Tremolino Trimaran
Tremolino Trimaran. The Dick Newick-designed Tremolino blends ancient technologies with high-tech design and construction methods. The strip-built trimaran gives even the less-experienced builder a chance to own this fast and fun-to-sail craft. Boat Profile. The King.
Newick CREATIVE 42 TRI for sale
Newick CREATIVE 42 TRI for sale - An elegant trimaran designed by Dick Newick. The beautiful flowing lines, sailing qualities and seaworthiness, makes the Creative 42 one of Newicks most popular and enduring designs. View over 1000s of new and used boats and yachts for sale online. Buy a boat, Sell or list your boat for rent or sale, find ...
Tremolino Plans For Sale, a 23 foot trimaran for the masses by Dick Newick
Tremolino Plans For Sale - email for Plans. Dick Newick's smallest (23 ft.) stock design plans are available in one consolidated package, digitized (.pdf), for $350 U.S. (April, 2019). From Tremolino's origin with John Olin using Hobie hulls for amas and Newick's Vaka, (main hull design) the set includes revisions, full size building jig patterns, and offsets.
125 Dick Newick Echo II 38ft. Trimaran
High performance is an overused and often purposely vague advertising term. As used by me, it means the ability to sail safely and comfortably, faster than winds up to about 14 knots and to achieve over 20 knots in ideal conditions with a minimum of effort. The primary reason to buy a Newick design is to SAIL!
Used Newick Trimaran 36 boats for sale
Newick ⁄ / 36; Used Newick Trimaran 36 boats for sale. Save Search. Clear Filter Make / Model: Newick - 36 Condition: Used Category: Sail - Trimaran. Location. By Radius. By Country. country-all. All Countries. Country-VI. U.S. Virgin Islands. All. All 25 miles 50 miles 100 miles 200 miles 300 miles 500 miles 1000 miles 2000 miles 5000 miles.
Trice (trimaran)
Trice was a 36-foot trimaran sailboat designed by Dick Newick, one the earliest designs in his career (following the 32 ft (9.8 m) Trine), which contributed substantially to the revival of multihull vessels from the 1960s to the late 20th century.
2002 Newick 36 Trimaran for sale
Trimaran ⁄ / Newick ... The vessel was designed and constructed by Tricia/Newick. She was completed in 1979. The vessel was purchased by Jones from Saga Sails St Croix and was stripped and rebuilt and recommissioned after a complete rebuild and given the present Hull Identification Number.
Newick Val 31 Trimaran for sale
The Newick Val 31 Trimaran is 31 feet long and has a 25 feet beam and a draft of 1.52 meters. This 1982 Petrol Newick Val 31 Trimaran powered by Mariner 6 with 6.0 horsepower is capable of reaching a maximum speed of 6 knots and a cruising speed of 4 knots. The Newick Val 31 Trimaran is made of fiberglass. Trimarans in United Kingdom.
Dick Newick Val 2 Dick Newick Val Single Handing Ocean Crosser
Dick Newick Val 2 Dick Newick Val Single Handing Ocean Crosser. Update June 5th: Inspections on Rote Island delayed until 15 Aug. 2024. Worth the wait? Rote Island offers a splendid site...Find out more. Dick Newick Val 2 Dick Newick Val Single Handing Ocean Crosser. Update June 5th: Inspections on Rote Island delayed until 15 Aug. 2024.
About Dick Newick
Newick's plans are the result of over forty nine years of designing, building, and sailing all types of multihulls, starting with a catamaran and several trimarans in my Caribbean day charter business, one of which is still sailing. Fiberglass sheathed plywood with strip planking below the waterline was the usual construction then.
Newick trimaran for sale
Buy Newick trimaran. Newick trimaran for sale on DailyBoats.com are listed for a range of prices, valued from $30,000 on the more basic models to $49,900 for the most expensive. The boats can differ in size from 10.97 m to 10.97 m. The oldest one built in 1970 year. This page features Newick boats located in countries: United States of America.
Newick sailboats for sale by owner.
Newick preowned sailboats for sale by owner. Newick used sailboats for sale by owner. Home. Register & Post. View All Sailboats. Search. Avoid Fraud. ... composite trimaran: Engine: 1 gas outboard; Location: Port Huron, Michigan; Asking: $59,000: Sailboat Added 25-Apr-2022 More Details: NEWICK Trice III Ostar Race / Cruiser:
37' NEWICK Trice III Ostar Race / Cruiser
2.5'. North Carolina. $63,000. Description: NEWICK 37 TRIMARAN TRICE III - Just back in North Carolina and up from Exuma Bahamas. For all you multi-hullers that are familiar with NEWICKS. This boat is a collectors item like fine art work and built entirely out out vinylester resin fiberglass ! Thats right a very rare bird Newick thats built out ...
Echo II trimaran
Warm weather and light winds, no more than 14 knots, made for two days of pleasant trial sails during which we could effortlessly do well over 120% of wind speed with five people aboard." Dick Newick, March 25, 2002. Study plan (2012 x 1233) ALMOST COMPLETE. Echo Class Trimaran "Moby". NSW Australia (Sydney), February 8, 2018.
Pat's, 50' trimaran, by Dick Newick
Sortie du chantier RIVE SUD du trimaran PATS à SETE, 2013 links to Pat's pages:. NEWICK 50' PATS (brokerage); Newick Home Page. All Designs
Newick boats for sale
Newick equips models listed with outboard and electric drive power options, available with gas and diesel propulsion systems. Often admired and relied upon for their Trimaran and Multi-Hull, the Newick boats listed generally have a draft and exceedingly wide beam, features that make them popular and an excellent choice for a variety of ...