New Zealand Maritime Museum

This guide to the New Zealand Maritime Museum in Auckland centers on NZL thirty-two, the yacht known as Black Magic, suspended overhead as if still racing. It traces the boat's run in the America's Cup off San Diego in May nineteen ninety-five under skipper Peter Blake, and the superstition, a pair of red socks from his wife, that an entire nation adopted alongside him. Look closely at the hull for what the museum chose to leave visible rather than polish away.