For the love of trimarans
Sailors often fall in love with the same multihulls... Among the most popular, Dick Newick’s designs are clear box office winners. Graceful lines, exceptional helm feel, the charm of wood… arguments in favor of models bearing the American naval architect’s signature are not lacking! For Koen Joustra, sailing his own Newick trimaran is even a childhood dream... finally realized thanks to the talent of his accomplice Philippe Godefroy
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Published on 24/03/2021
By
Philippe Echelle
Issue:
177
Published:
May.
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Jun.
2021
THE WIZARD OF MASSACHUSETTS
Richard Newick (1926-2013), better known as Dick, was one of the most talented multihull architects of the latter half of the twentieth century. Dick was paddling on European rivers from just after the end of the Second World War, gaining a perfect knowledge of kayaking, and therefore of gliding through the water. But he had other sources of inspiration: Polynesian maritime heritage, being one. Dick metabolized and fixed for eternity the DNA of a lucent feature of the marine landscape: the Newick trimaran! Dick sometimes confided that…
