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DESIGNING DREAMS

A visionary and innovative multihull designer, Dick Newick penned over 140 boats during his career and inspired multihull enthusiasts all over the world.

My own exposure to his designs was the mid-1980s while working in Boston, Massachusetts. I saw a strange-looking trimaran and read the name on her bow. I recalled

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