[2] After school he spent some time in the United States Navy and earned a degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
[2] He ran a boat shop, worked charitably with Quakers in Mexico, then explored Europe by kayak.
[2] He sailed to St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands where he met and married his wife Patricia Ann Moe.
[2] They lived in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts and Kittery Point, Maine and had two daughters, Lark Blair and Valery Wright, both of whom have boat designs named after them.
[2][4] Newick was at the forefront of the 1960s revival of multihulls, helping to reform their aesthetic and influencing later designs such as the AC72.