Original Boxing Kangaroo flag heads home
by AOC on 28 Sep 2009
Australia’s Skip Lissiman, a crew on 1983 Cup winner Australia II, is flanked by Andy MacGowan (Middletown, R.I.) and journalist Dick Enerson (Seattle, Wash.) at the Q&A at a Legend’s Forum during the 12 Metre World Championship Meghan Sepe
The original boxing kangaroo flag flown on Australia II when it won the America’s Cup in 1983 is on its way home to Australia.
The flag was discovered recently hanging in O’Brien’s Bar in Newport Rhode Island by Australia II crewman John Longley.
Today, another Australia II crewman, Skip Lissiman, accepted the flag and presented the bar with a new BK flag signed by the crew who rested the auld mug New York Yacht Club 26 years ago to the day.
The Australian Olympic Committee which owns the rights to the boxing kangaroo has agreed the original flag will be donated to a museum of the crew’s choice.
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