GOOSE REBORN
Sailors either love Dick Newick’s (1926 – 2013) shapely trimaran designs, or they’re oblivious to them.
With their amas (floats) shaped like a genie’s slippers and wing decks resembling a seabird in flight, Newick’s ground-breaking 1970/80s designs are an acquired taste. But there’s no arguing that they fulfil his ethos of design simplicity, safe seagoing performance, aesthetics and speed under sail.
The young Newick designed and built kayaks in New Jersey, selling the designs to friends and schoolmates. He did a stint in the US Navy and an engineering degree in California before going sailing and kayaking in the US, Europe and the
