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Phil Weld Collection of Dick Newick Trimaran Plans (5465)

IYRS Maritime Library


Inventory

Container Description Date
DESIGN #28, "GULF STREAMER", 1973
• 43 large blueprint/whiteprint plans, many with annotations and revisions written and drawn in pencil and ink
• 1 small printed copy of sheet #2 of the plans, with pencil annotations

DESIGN #34, "ROGUE WAVE", 1976-77
• 16 large blueprint/whiteprint plans, many with annotations and revisions in pencil and ink, a few with the working name of the yacht written in pencil as "Tribute"
• 3 small printed copies of sheet #6 of the plans

DESIGN #48, "MOXIE", 1978
• 8 large blueprints/whiteprint plans, titled "Ms. Moxie / 1980 OSTAR entry", many with annotations in pencil and ink, one sheet with the following list written in pencil on the reverse (presumably in Weld's hand); "1. THP / 2. Tom Wilkinson / 3. Henry Nichols / 4. Bob Goodman / 5. Mike Casey / 6. Bob Smith -Heater / 7. Ron K __[?]"
• Charcoal hull lettering plan; "Moxie / Gloucester"

DESIGN #45, 1978
• 1 blueprint/whiteprint, titled "Proposed OSTAR racer, maximum PEN DUICK Class, 1980"
• 1 blueprint/whiteprint, titled "SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, preliminary"

DESIGN #43, 1978
• 2 blueprints/whiteprints, titled "MULTI-PEOPLE'S BOAT, demountable, for home builders, 'study'", one with the following written in ink on the reverse from Newick to Weld; "Phil - Just got the copy of your note to Jim [Brown ?]. / Wonderful - / Here's my latest attempt at a reasonably priced 30 footer. / Key is the carbon fiber spar. / Am going [?] at material cost of less than 3000, but the factory produced spars will up that. Hope to have an idea of that price soon. / Mike Birch is here for a few hours after SORC on a bog Italian boat. Quite a change from the way some of the rest of us live and sail. / Cheers - Dick"

"SIB" [SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL] DESIGN, 1978
• 1 blueprint/whiteprint with the following written in ink upper-left from Newick to Weld; "Phil - Returned home easily on AIR NEW ENGLAND after less than an hour wait. Here's a sketch showing some variations on the SIB theme. Will write a letter tonight - Dick / If these R.W. [?] drawings aren't as clear as you'd like I'll try the big machines on Boston next time I come up."
• 1 blueprint/whiteprint from "Brown and Newick", titled "S.I.B. Prototype" and with the following ink annotation lower-right from Jim Brown to Weld; "Ahoy Phil - She sure is BEAUTIFUL. / GOOD LUCK! Jim / (incomplete) Photos of model not ready. Do you have an address in England?"
• 1 blueprint/whiteprint of Constant Camber Construction from Jim Brown/ Searunner Trimarans, with the following written in ink; "Just a simplified extension of Dick's 'Master Mold""

CRUISING MOXIE, 1980
• 1 blueprint/whiteprint, titled "MOXIE MOD (more room) for Barbara and Larry Bedell"

GINO MORRELLI. 2 whiteprint outline designs for a 60' trimaran that Morrelli and Randy Smyth were trying to secure a sponsor for (unsuccessfully), 1986/87.

Photographs (including by Beken) of "Trumpeter", "Gulf Streamer" and "Moxie", a postcard from Newick to Weld, 1972, and some other related correspondence, magazines and ephemera.