Background
Newick, Richard Cooper was born on May 9, 1926 in Hackensack, New Jersey, United States. Son of Richard Paul and Evelyn Johnson (Cooper) Newick.
Newick, Richard Cooper was born on May 9, 1926 in Hackensack, New Jersey, United States. Son of Richard Paul and Evelyn Johnson (Cooper) Newick.
Bachelor of Science, University California, Berkeley, 1948.
At 12 he designed and built two more by himself. At 14 he sold kayak plans to a schoolmate for $5. After school he spent some time in the United States Navy and earned a degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
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.
Newick believed in reincarnation and said he had been a Polynesian boat builder in a previous life. He lauded simplicity of design, safe seagoing performance, aesthetics, and speed under sail.
Newick was at the forefront of the 1960s revival of multihulls, helping to reform their aesthetic and influencing later designs such as the AC72. He was inducted into the North American Boat Designers Hall of Fame in 2008.
Newick completed around 140 boat designs during his career, including the following.
Ay Ay - catamaran
Cheers - proa
Third Turtle - trimaran
Tremolino - 23 ft (70 m) trimaran
Trice - 36 ft (11 m) trimaran sloop (after Trine)
Trine - 32 ft (98 m) trimaran sloop (before Trice).
With United States Navy, 1943-1946. Member New England Multihull Association (honorary).
Married Patricia Ann Moe, May 9, 1958. Children: Lark, Valery.