Platu 25

	Class symbol
Development
Designer	Bruce Farr
Location	New Zealand
Year	1994
Design	Farr Yacht Design
Boat
Crew	4 minimum ; 400kg max
Displacement	1,240 kg (2,730 lb)
Hull
Type	Keelboat
LOH	7.51 m
Beam	2.56 m
Sails
Mainsail area	21.2 m2
Spinnaker area	44.5 m2
Class is a member of World Sailing
	[edit on Wikidata]

The Platu 25 (formerly Beneteau 25) is a sailing boat designed by Farr Yacht Design led by Bruce Farr with the first boat being built by McDell Marine in New Zealand in the early 1990s. It became a class recognised by the International Sailing Federation in November 2006.

History

The International Platu 25 Class Association was formed as the owners association to support the class and promote racing amongst owners which led to the class becoming an ISAF recognised. This entitled the class to hold World Championships.

The boat current two builders being Beneteau in France and Extreme Sailing Products near Singapore.^[1]

Events

World Championships

Year v t e	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2007 Neustadt	La Revoltosa (GER) Joachim Hellmich	Flexi (GER) Niklas Ganssauge	Vilagarcia (ESP) Carlos Paz Blanco
2008 Crete	Modus Vivendi – 3 Alfa (GRE) Panagiotis Mantis Kostas Karageorgiou Vasilis Portosalte Vaggelis Kappas Stavros Argyros	Flexi (GER) Niklas Ganssauge Sven Kruse Bernhard Krüger Sonja Krabbe Thomas Kruse	Bribon (ESP) Marc De Antonio Javi Jaudenes Matias Bonet Sofia Bertrand Lluis Mas
2009 Punta Ala 91 Boats	Vilagarcia (ESP) Antón Paz	Modus Vivendi – 3 Alfa (GRE) Panagiotis Mantis	Bribon – Movistar (ESP) Jose Cusì
2010 Alicante 66 Boats	Modus Vivendi – 3 Alfa (GRE) Panagiotis Mantis Pavlos Kagialis Vaggelis Kappas Andreas Paleras Kostas Karageorgiou	Carpantxo (ESP) J. Pintos F. Sanchez R.Alvarez J. Figueria B. Coira	Iberdola (ESP) M. Weiller F. Pomar M. Bonet P. Balaguer F. Gallastegui
2011 Gmunden 46 Boats	EUZ II Monella Vagabonda (ITA) Sandro Montefusco Markus Sigrist Corrado Capece Minutolo Francesco Lanera Elisabetta Picca Lukas Gerig	Mundo Marino (ESP) Francisco Sánchez Ferrer Roman Illan Garcia Jesús De Arias Far Marina Sánchez Cristina Femenía Alvaro De Haro	Falkone (GER) Cornelius Heeschen Falko Knabe Ole Von Studnitz Thorben Nowak Frank Wegener
2012 Rosignano 50 Boat	EUZ II Monella Vagabonda (ITA) Sandro Montefusco Paolo Montefusco Corrado Capece Minutolo Francesco Lanera Andrea Quartulli	Vilagarcia (ESP) Carlos Paz Antón Paz Juan Deben Joaquin Cores Abuin Bernardo Paz Docampo	Five for Fighting 3 (ITA) Alberto La Tegola Tommaso De Bellis Vitti Diego Romero Mario Di Rienzo Mario Rinaldi
2013 Portosín 22 Boat	Credite EGS (POR) Afonso Domingos Gil Conde Nuno Barreto Filipe Matias Pedro Patricio	EUZ II Monella Vagabonda (ITA) Sandro Montefusco	E para comer Lugo (ESP) Gonzalo Araújo
2014 Antibes 35 Boat	EUZ II Monella Vagabonda (ITA) Francesco Lanera Sandro Montefusco Paolo Montefusco Lorenzo de Felice Michele Valenti	Five for Fighting 3 (ITA) Tommaso De Bellis Vitti Nikolaos Mascoli Michele Regolo Gabriele Gorgoni Giulio Desiderato	Superbüsi (SUI) Mathias Bermejo David Erismann Marcus Rindlisbacher Roland Kunz Nicolas Duchoud
2015 Piraeus	Championships cancelled
2016 Brunnen 27 Boat	Falkone (SUI) Eric Monnin Andreas Widmer Julien Falxa Clement Salzes Mathieu Renault	Superbüsi (SUI) Mathias Bermejo	Five for Fighting 3 (ITA) Tommaso De Bellis Vitti
2017 Mondello 35 Boat	EUZ II Taverna Degli Amici (ITA) Francesco Lanera	Five For Fighting 3 (ITA) Tommaso De Bellis Vitti	Brera Hotels (ITA) Alberto Wolleb
2018 Riga 37 Boats ^[2]	EUZ II Taverna Degli Amici (ITA) Sandro Montefusco Francesco Lanera Paolo Montefusco Paolo Bucciarelli Roberto Santomanco	Easy Tiger (AUS) Chris Way Tommy Spithill Steve McConaghy Murray Gordon Rachel Bower	Penelope (EST) Mati Sepp Karl Kolk Janno Hool A. Kodar R. Elnionis
2019 Faro	Championships cancelled
2020 Nida	Championships postponed due to Covid-19
2021 Nida 32 boats^[3]	Penelope Mati Sepp Janno Hool Ago Rebane Karl Kolk Rufus Rytovaara	EUZ II VILLA SCHINOSA Francesco Lanera Corrado Capace Minutolo Paolo Montefusco Roberto Santomanco Valerio Galati	White Whale Raimondas Šiugždinis Klaudio Kliučinskas Vaiva Anskaitienė Rimantas Vilkas Julius Maseiva

References

^ McArthur, Bruce (2022). "Beneteau". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
^ https://web.archive.org/web/20180829162632/http://platuworlds2018.com/index.php/Notice-Board
^ https://lt.regattas.eu/platuworlds2021

External links

Official

Manufactures

[1]
[2]

[1] McArthur, Bruce (2022). "Beneteau". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2022.

[2] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20180829162632/http://platuworlds2018.com/index.php/Notice-Board

[3] ttps://lt.regattas.eu/platuworlds2021

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