HISTOIRE DES HALFS

Introduction, Half tonner List, Architectes, Résultats, No Voile

 

 

Diablo, KZ ?
à jour au: 2023
1970 Plan Sparkmans & Stephens, built in NZ in kauri timber




1970
Built for kiwi Russell Hume to race in half ton cup in 1970

19?? New owner, John Webber, (but not sure she is the same boat!?)
2017 "Boating", extract of australian John Webber story,

2020 New owner

2021 April "Breeze Magazine",

2023 Januray, from Facebook "She's Diablo, an S&S half tonner designed in 1968. Built in NZ in kauri timber in 1970. Originally built for kiwi Russell Hume to race in half ton cup in 1970. Her sister ship Contender did very well but both became obsolete soon after when Bruce Farr arrived on the scene with, then revolutionary, "Titus Canby". I own Diablo now and am at the final stages of full restoration from a sad state. She's registered in NZ, sailing in the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland."