BANKS SAILS
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BANKS SAILS — GRE 2515

Model: Platu 25

BeneteauBruce Farr

With the same sail number: GRAFEIO · Platu 25 · 2023

Updated

BANKS SAILS (GRE 2515) is a Platu 25 designed by Bruce Farr and built by Beneteau. She has been racing since 2025. Against a typical Platu 25 she is quicker upwind in light air.

BANKS SAILS GRE 2515 - Bruce Farr - Beneteau

Racing record

Races with at least six boats

4

Race starts

0

Wins

50%

Podiums

68

Race Edge

Platu 25: 44

600.4s/mile

Rating 2025

Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.

Under 10 kn93
10–16 kn43
Over 16 kn46
BANKS SAILSA typical Platu 25How Race Edge works
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Length

7.53 m

24′ 8″

Beam

2.58 m

Draft

1.59 m

Displacement

1.2 t

Sail area

34 m²

On the podium

Where BANKS SAILS finishes when she goes racing.

0

Wins

2

Seconds

0

Thirds

4

Starts

Not enough races yet for a percentage — these are the counts so far. We keep collecting results, so this will fill in.

Regattas

Every regatta we found with BANKS SAILS on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.

  • Greece"Κυπελλο Χριστουγεννων"20252
  • Greece"Αγ. Νικολαου 2025"202512
  • Greece"Κυπελλο Δεη 2025"20252
  • Greece"Κυπελλο Αμφιθεας 2025"20258

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Round the buoys, or offshore

A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat.

Round the buoys

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Not enough data yet: 1 race of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.

Offshore & coastal

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Not enough data yet: 3 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.

Who she races against

The boats BANKS SAILS meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.

Other competitors (40)

Met too few times for a figure.

JUNIOR (J/80, 3 meetings), KRAKER (J/24, 3 meetings), ANDROMEDA (Moody 39, 3 meetings), ANAX (First 34.7, 3 meetings), MELINA (First 27.7, 3 meetings), FAINOMENO (Formula 28, 3 meetings), ALBIREO (X-35, 3 meetings), TILE 3 (IMX 38, 3 meetings), NOTOS (South 35, 3 meetings), NOSTOS (Kelt 5.50, 3 meetings), PEGA (X-362, 3 meetings), ALKYON (Platu 25, 3 meetings), UTOPIA (First 40, 2 meetings), FOXY LADY (Xp 44, 2 meetings), ALLEGORIA (Bavaria Match 35, 2 meetings), GORGO (Nek 26, 2 meetings), AIOLIA (J/11, 2 meetings), MUSUKO (First 35 (Farr), 2 meetings), EVRIALI (Dehler 38 (Stadt), 2 meetings), AETHOS (First 36, 2 meetings), AFROESSA (Sun Fast 3200, 2 meetings), LAVORO III (Dehler 30 OD, 2 meetings), GRACE (Grand Soleil 42 (Carkeek), 2 meetings), DE MALO (X-119, 2 meetings), ARMAGEDDON (Farr 40, 2 meetings), APIDALOS NAFS (IMX 40, 2 meetings), STAR POINT (Bh 36, 2 meetings), CHIMERA (X-362, 2 meetings), ERYTOS II (Jv 44, 2 meetings), FILIRA (Grand Soleil 37 (Design), 2 meetings), SUGAR (X-40, 1 meeting), KYMATOLIGI (Mount Gay 30, 1 meeting), VESSY (Bavaria Cruiser 40 S, 1 meeting), APOLLO (Pogo 44, 1 meeting), IONIA (X-43, 1 meeting), JOLLY (Platu 25, 1 meeting), AETHER (Dehler 30 OD, 1 meeting), MIMOSA (Dehler 35 (Voogd), 1 meeting), TIAMAT (First 36, 1 meeting), NALU (Dehler 30 OD, 1 meeting)

How BANKS SAILS compares with a typical Platu 25

Her main 2025 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Platu 25s measured since 2025.

Above the line she is quicker than a typical Platu 25; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.

True wind
Upwind-0.08 kn
Beam reach+0.02 kn
Broad reach+0.08 kn
Downwind+0.02 kn

Full width is 0.6 kn either way.

At 10 knots she gives away time to a typical Platu 25 on the upwind.

Speed at every angle

BANKS SAILS in blue, a typical Platu 25 dashed.

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BANKS SAILS in blue, a typical Platu 25 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.

Other Platu 25s racing

Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.

More about the Platu 25

Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.

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