At the end of a serious competition, Stéphane Le Diraison and Adrien Hardy end on the second step of the podium.

They thus show their qualities of ocean racers and confirm the performances of the Pogo 40S ².

Pogo 12.50 won Yacht of the Year for “Performance Cruiser”.

After Pogo 8.50 in 2001, Pogo 10.50 is “Voilier de l’année” by Voile Magazine.

The 9 first places for Pogo sailboats

Xavier MACAIRE arrived first on “Starter”, followed by Jean-Marc ALLAIRE on “Baker Tilly AG2R La Mondiale” and Amaury FRANCOIS on “amauryfrancois.com”.

Record in 24h :
During the race, Xavier MACAIRE set the record of the longest distance sailed in 24h, on a standard sailboat, covering 272,63 miles in 24-hour…

Congratulations !

Winning most races in Europe, the Pogo 2 has been since its first Mini Transat in 2003 the benchmark in the Production Mini world. With hundreds of Pogo 2 in Europe, Pogo Structures, the French builder, and Open Sailing (U.S. builder of the Open 5.70 and importer of other Finot/Conq sportboats) decided to join their skills, expertise and experience to launch the production of the Pogo 2 in North America. The objective is to grow the Pogo 2 fleet in the USA but also to provide a great little production mini available for U.S. sailors and beyond.

Since January 2010, Pogo Structures and Open Sailing have been working on the production details of the Pogo 2. Open Sailing shipped the original molds to sunny Southern California with one unique goal: build an exact copy of the French built Pogo 2 with the same quality and performance as the one made in France.

Fine results for the brand new Pogo 40 S²

3 Pogo40 S² boats finish in the top 7:

• 2nd : Nicolas Troussel on CMB
• 5th : Damien Grimont on Monbana
• 7th : Jean Edouard Criquioche on Groupe Picoty
• 17th : Régis Guillemot on Régis Guillemot charter

Double victory for the Pogo 40S²

First overall for Stephane Le Diraison and Vincent Barnaud on Bureau Veritas and victory on the second leg for Jean Edouard Criquioche and Jacques Fournier on Groupe Picoty.

Congratulations to Benoit MARIETTE, leg winner in the series class on ODALYS VACANCES!

Series Results: POGOs took the top 8 places.

(source : Mini-transat website)
Benoît Mariette, at the helm of his Pogo 2 Odalys Vacances has just won the first leg of the Charente-Maritime/Bahia Transat 6.50 (provisional ranking before jury).
His race time between La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime/France) and Funchal (Madeira/Portugal) is 9 days 08 hours and 31 minutes. He covered the 1 148 miles of race course at an average speed of 5.11 knots.

Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron on the Pogo 40s2 “Campagne de France”

passed through the scoring gate at Fernando de Noronha in first place. They have a twenty mile lead over the New Zealand team. Ahead lies a big arc through the South Atlantic to Cape Town.

The Pogo 12.50 has been nominated for European Yacht of the Year.