Murray bristled when his familiarity with the jury room during his Cup career was raised in this week's press session, firing back: "Might I say of those 37 challenges I won every one of them."
A skilled naval architect, Murray has designed, built and sailed championship boats in the 18ft skiff class, and completed 19 Sydney-Hobart races, of which he currently holds the course record.
More importantly, as regards his experience in overseeing the review into the Artemis training accident, Murray chaired the Australian Maritime Safety Authority at the time it was looking into the 1998 Sydney-Hobart tragedy, in which five boats sank and six sailors died.
Murray's appointment and the establishment of the America's Cup race management organisation in 2010 were hailed as the first time in the event's 162-year history that the defender had divested management of the competition into the hands of a neutral body.
Over the past few weeks as tension has risen around the contentious new rudder regulations, Murray has been at pains to point out the organisation's neutrality, and did so again in his briefing this week.
"I was appointed regatta director by the challengers, and accepted in that role by the defender. I work on behalf of all the teams," he said.
But, as one European journalist later pointed out, his words would have had more weight had Tom Ehman - the Golden Gate Yacht Club representative - not been seated at the back of the press conference, overseeing the operation like a conductor in an orchestra.
Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton has previously described Murray as "a nice guy, he's straight down the middle - I've got a lot of respect for him".
However, with his new rudder regulations, Dalton believes Murray has become too conservative, with the issue of liability nagging away at him should another accident occur.
Murray struggled to compose himself when he fronted media the day after the death of Andrew Simpson. He does not want another tragedy.
"Someone needs to save these teams from themselves."