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28.11.00
2000 Flying Dutchman World Championships
The FD World Championships in South Africa have rounded off
another excellent year for Banks Flying Dutchman sails.
Read Hugh Myers' round-up
16.10.00
Carl Dyson Yacht Regatta 2000
Roger Cerrato continues his (and Banks's) winning streak, this
time sharing the spoils of victory with Malcolm and Hilda Blyth
and the crew of Blyth Spirit (pic #1). Roger reports on his
weekend at Port Edgar Yacht Club, Edinburgh.
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5.9.00
Welsh National Sportsboat Championships
A near faultless display earns yet another success for the Banks-powered
Re-Tex Dickies Yacht Sales (pic #2). Nigel Biggs takes us to
the heart of the action at Abersoch Keelboat Week.
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30.8.00
Dartmouth Royal Regatta
A Banks clean sweep as both Roger Cerrato (on Fandango, pic
#3) and Donald Wilks (on Blues Xtra) take class honours.
Read our two-part
report
30.8.00
Torbay Royal Regatta
Donald Wilks joins Roger and Sally Lean on the victorious Celavie
(pic #4).
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29.7.00
East Coast Sailing Week, Scotland
Banks customer Malcolm Blyth brings us an account of his first
regatta aboard his new X-332.
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8.7.00
Cuore Sportivo takes the honours at the Malta
Rolex Cup Regatta
Banks powers Georges Bonello DuPuis's Beneteau 25 to a Racer
Class and overall victory over the Mnarja weekend in Malta.
Read our regatta report
English Commodore's Cup
Team Trials
Full reports from the English Team Trials for the Commodore's
Cup:
• Week One: Solent Inshore Trials
• Week Two: RORC Morgan Cup Race
Hoya Round the Island Race
2000
Read Roger Cerrato's report from onboard
Peter Morton's X-99 Exile.
Sportsboats at Bell Lawrie
Scottish Series
The Bell Lawrie Scottish Series attracted 15 mixed sportsboats
to Loch Fyne over the May Bank Holiday weekend. Racing as part
of the Lewmar Fleet with the 1720s and Sigma 33s supplied testing
and at times hair-raising conditions.
Read our full-length
report
English Team Commodore's Cup Trials Approach
After months of planning by the various campaigns, the Commodore's
Cup Trials are nearly here. Read more
about the preparations...
Bank of Valletta Spring Series
Georges Bonello DuPuis reports on a successful series for Cuore
Sportivo.
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Blue Yankee wins the inaugural Baltimore
to Key West Race
Bob Towse's 66-foot Reichel Pugh-designed Blue Yankee was first
to finish and was confirmed as the overall winner of the Storm
Trysail Club's inaugural Key West to Baltimore Race for the
Hemingway Cup. This new 1,000-mile ocean race started from Key
West on 23 April and Blue Yankee set what is now the course
record elapsed time of only 95 hours to finish at Baltimore's
inner harbor just before noon on Thursday 27 April.
Read our special feature
Spi Ouest 2000
Read Roger Cerrato's reports from onboard Quokka at the recent
Spi Ouest event:
Typical
Spi Ouest! (Thursday 20 April)
Friday's racing (Friday 21 April)
A turn for the worst... (Saturday 22 April)
Dartmouth Spring Regatta 2000
Roger Cerrato joined the crew of David Scalan's Fandango to
compete in the Dartmouth Spring Regatta.
See how he got on...
Warsash Mercantile Credit Millennium Spring
Series IRM Report
With this year's Spring Series holding the first IRM Class racing
anywhere, much worldwide interest was centred on the event.
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Warsash Mercantile Credit Millennium Spring
Series
Banks Sails are delighted to have been associated with the Warsash
Mercantile Credit Millennium Spring Series. If you missed out
on any of the action, why not check out our weekly newsletters?
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Primo Cup 2000
This year's Primo Cup, an important early season opener for
Europe's one-design keelboats, attracted a high-quality fleet
of 15 Beneteau 25s.
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Reports and results 2001
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