[5][6] A 14-year association as tactician and helmsman on super maxi Wild Oats X1 contributed to nine Line Honours victories.
[9] Murray won the 18 ft skiff world title, the JJ Giltinan International Trophy, for six consecutive years from 1977 to 1982.
[23] In the 1983 America's Cup challenge at Newport, Rhode Island, Murray sailed on Syd Fischer's Advance.
Kookaburra III won the defender elimination trials against three other Australian syndicates including Alan Bond's Australia 111, off Fremantle.
[24] Racing contracts prevented the winning syndicate from amending a boat to meet the waterline length of the American contender Stars & Stripes 87, rendering a proper defense unachievable and resulting in a four nil defeat.