HISTOIRE DES HALFS

Introduction, Half tonner List, Architectes, Half Ton Cup, No Voile

Diablo, KZ ?
Last update: 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 January 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."