Hello everyone!

If we count the days, it has been since the first of the year since we initiated the production of the Pogo 2 in the USA. We are proud to announce that after exactly 8 months of hard but quality work, the production of hull # 1 has started this week. The deck will be ready early next week. By then we will have the first lead bulb and cast iron foil made as well. In the meantime, we are also getting other structural hull component fabricated and will start laying up the hull in the next couple of weeks.

Hull # 1 should be ready by the end of September. We will start production of Hull # 2 by the end of August for Lee, Mini racer who is planning on participating to the 2011 Mini Transat. Hull # 3 will get into production around September.

The first Pogo 2 will be introduced in the USA for the first time at the Annapolis Boat Show. Contact us to make sure you can see the boat, and maybe schedule a demo ride!

If all goes well, we are planning on building 3, maybe 4 Pogo 2 before the end of 2010. If you are planning on getting a Pogo 2 for the 2011 season, we definitely encourage you to contact us and book your production slot!

If you haven’t seen these photos, please check the following links of:

Pogo 2 Deck Layout

Pogo 2 Interior

Pogo 2 NKE Setup

Open Sailing has sponsored a new forum on the popular sailing news website Sailing Anarchy. The forum is called Mini Anarchy and is “All about the Mini’s”. Current topics include Mini 6.5 Pogo 2…., beer can racing with a mini, Just a MINI thread…, Alessandro Di Benedetto, and many more…

With the tooling for the Pogo 2 about to clear U.S. Customs and pretty much most of the production details now cleared out, we are ready to launch production of the Pogo 2 in the USA. We already have 3 Pogo 2 to build and hope that after the first boats built, sailed and raced, many of you will join the class and enjoy everything that a mini 6.50 boats have to offer.

In the meantime, Jerome Sammarcelli (Open Sailing President) is going to visit (more…)

After a difficult start with a delay due to gale force wind, the Mini racers started early May the first leg of the Mini Pavois. The elements were tough for the racers and the boats: many had to return to port and / or retire with broken mast, rudders or electronics issues. Most of them have still finished the race. In the production class, 13 Pogo 2 finished out of 17 boats in the class.

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It’s been a busy month at Open Sailing with many races and the Oakland boat show. Fortunately, communicating with the French and Pogo Structures doesn’t overlap with our 12 hours working days.  With 9 hours difference, we call the French at 6am our time (it’s only 3pm in France), so plenty of time to talk to everyone there and get things organized.

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