Highly Sprung

Well-named Highly Sprung is owned by 2020 Ocean Racer Rookie of the year, Mark Spring, who purchased the Beneteau First 45 in 2018.  In 2019, Highly Sprung scooped IRC, ORCI and was second over the line in the Pittwater to Paradise race.  Spring scored second place in IRC and ORCI division in his first full year of racing in the 2019 Blue Water Pointscore.  That year, he placed 44^th in the Rolex Sydney Hobart.  The former Lady Courrier/Balance/Peugeot Surfrider did her first Hobart in 2008, and her then French owner placed 37^th overall.  Paul Clitheroe bought her and placed 62^nd in 2009, 18^th in 2011 and 37^th in 2013.  Chartered in 2012, she placed 21^st as Peugeot Surfrider.  This is the third Highly Sprung for Spring, who has done just the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart, and he is still in awe of this famous race.  

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