Black Magic - The Team New Zealand Story

Television (Full Length) – 1996

What was great was to be able to go to them and say — and I remember it well — 'boys, we have ourselves a rocket ship.'
– Sir Peter Blake on the impressive initial tests of yacht NZL 32 (aka Black Magic)

Russell [Coutts] said that as navigator my physical requirement is to be able to get on and get off without straining myself and not to have a heart attack, so I'm working towards that goal.
– Kiwi navigator Tom Schnackenberg on his physical preparations for the America's Cup

One phone call late on a Friday night, and all of a sudden we have some money coming. Yes we were going to get paid, yes we could get Russell Coutts and Doug Peterson, and yes the America's Cup was on. A pretty important phone call.
– Team New Zealand member Mike Quilter

Black Magic's advantage in speed was due in part to [Doug] Peterson's decision to design her with a narrow beam and a mast positioned further aft than her conventional counterparts, establishing a new paradigm in America's Cup class yacht design.
– Press release on Black Magic co-designer Doug Peterson being inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame, 30 March 2017