America's Cup: Kevin Parry remembered

10:53 AM Wed 8 Dec 2010 GMT

'Iain Murray, with Kevin Parry and Iain’’s dog ’’Cliff’’, during a press conference at the 1987 America’’s Cup in Perth, Australia' . Click Here to view large photo

The America's Cup community gathered on Wednesday in Perth to celebrate one of its own - Kevin Parry, the principal backer of the Kookaburra campaign, which became the Australian defender of the Cup in 1987. Parry, 77, was a celebrated Western Australian businessman. He was killed in a car accident near his home in Western Australia last month. Although Parry's Kookaburra was successful in the defender trials, they would eventually fall to Dennis Conner's Stars and Stripes team in the Match and the America's Cup would head back to the United States. The Kookaburra campaign was launched in response to ...

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