From radio-controlled model boats to 170-foot superyachts

From radio-controlled model boats to 170-foot superyachts

International boat designer Kevin Dibley. PHOTO: PHILIP CHANDLER A landlocked South Island town’s not where you’d expect to find someone who designs boats that ply the world’s waterways. Philip Chandler asks Kevin Dibley, who just about grew up on a boat in Canada and studied mechanical engineering at Canterbury University, why he ended up in Queenstown and how he ended up in the Tasman Sea in ’93