Multihull Designer Inducted into the Hall of Fame

Multihulls are on-topic so it's doubledog right in 2008 to see Dick Newick as the first multihull designer since Nathanael Herreshoff inducted into the North American Boat Designers Hall of Fame.

In one adventure, Cap't Nat designed and built a cat named Amaryllis, sailed it 200 miles from Bristol to New York at an average of 14 knots, and then gave the 1876 Centennial Regatta fleet such a walloping that he was told to come back with a monohull next time or don't come back at all.

Ninety-three years later another phenomenon arrived, and on that I quote myself: "It's a story worth telling around the campfires of each new generation, how an outside-the-box 40-foot proa sailed by Tom Follett electrified the sailing world with an unexpected third-place finish in the 1968 Singlehanded Transatlantic Race, launching the multihull era in the Atlantic and launching the design career of one Dick Newick."

http://sailmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... -good.html

click the link for the full story by Kimball Livingston

Well said. I remember reading about Dick Newick's adventures and feats in awe. For those interested, Amaryllis is in the Herreshoff Museum in Newport, RI. It is only a sideshow, hanging from the ceiling last I knew, almost like in awkward storage. But at least they have it.