WINGING IT

摘要

It's a sunny day in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf, off the coast of Auckland, and I've just boarded Kostecki's boat. Actually, calling it a boat suggests something a lot more substantial than what I'm standing on. It's the barest skeleton of a raft, a wisp of a catamaran 22 feet wide by just under 45 feet long. Called an AC45, it's a bantam version of the next-generation America's Cup yacht, and it's unlike anything else on water.