Newick Echo 38

Newick Echo 38 - Elegant Rocket

MOCKING BIRD

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By Jim Brown 

This unusual multihull embodies a classic Corinthian axiom: “The best cruising boat is the best racing boat.”  Indeed, sterling performance adds so much to the cruising experience – and  Spartan, seamanlike accommodations add so much to one’s chance of winning ocean races --  that a careful combination of these two parameters  should dominate the design of serious voyaging yachts. There may be no multihull designer better able to achieve this rare compromise than the late, great  Dick Newick. His 38’ trimaran design ECHO II, as represented here by MOCKING BIRD, splendidly exemplifies that talent.

Meticulously built in Virginia by the multihull specialists at Lombardi Yachts and launched in 2002, this vessel has been well kept by her original, very boat-wise, owner at his private mooring, but (for reasons of life getting in the way) she has been very little used. The writer of this watched her being built, has sailed in her at over 18 knots, and has examined her carefully in 2014. Her structure, spars, sails, rigging, hardware, systems and machinery all match or surpass the designer’s specs, and all appear to be in like-new condition. Her original Awlgrip® finish, inside and out, is remarkably fair and sound-if-not-glossy, and her general countenance (excepting the engine room hatch which drips) is complete  and  truly ready for sea. She is priced at US$250,000, which is just over half of her original investment..

NOTE:  A seven minute DVD of this vessel,

shown sailing at over 18 knots in a

breeze too light to make white caps,

is available from Jim Brown.

SPECIFICATIONS 

Mocking Bird : Echo II Trimaran

Designed by Dick Newick

LOA:  38’       BOA:  30’       Disp: 7,000 Lbs.

Launched: 2002 Virginia USA (Lomabardi Yachts)

Lying: Zimmerman Marine, Deltaville, VA 23043

Mast:  Carbon fiber, rotating semi-wing mast with Antal sail track

Boom:  Carbon fiber

Sails:

1 Full Battened Main

1 Drifter on Harken Roller Furler

1 Genoa on Schaefer double groove furler

Bimini cockpit cover/Main Sail Cover

Construction

All CoreCell foam core with  S-glass/WEST Epoxy  skins with ample carbon fiber reinforcement laid to parallel the main load paths. Outboard sides of amas reinforced with ample longitudinal uni-glass. Very fair pre-finishing inside and out.

Engine

Yanmar 15hp  2YM15C/ SD 20 Sail Drive installed 2012.

Gori 2 blade folding prop (15x12LHS).

13 gal/50L fuel tank

Windless:

Anchorlift Barracuda 900, with dedicated battery

Deck Hardware

8 winches

4 x Anderson 40ST, 2 speed self tailing - Cockpit/Cabin top

2 x Anderson 28ST, 2 speed self tailing – Running Backstays/Drifter

2 x Harken 40ST, 2 speed self tailing – Halyards -  Mast mounted

Electrical

2 x Solar Panels

3 x 12V Batteries, (House, Starting, Windless)

1 x Electric Panel

Electronics

Icom ICM402 VHF

Raymarine ST4000 Auto Pilot

Raymarine ST 60 Depth Sounder/Speedo/Log

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