A new Pogo 2, #831, named “C’s Folly” has been delivered to it’s new owner, Charles Calkins, in Charleston, South Carolina. You can check out more pictures from the delivery here.

A new Pogo 2, #829, named “Flying Fox” has been delivered to it’s new owner, Saadiah Freeman, at Cedar Point Yacht Club in Connecticut. You can check out more pictures from the delivery here and follow the boat on the “Flying Fox” website.

USA 316 was delivered just in time for Cal Race Week. The new owners, Scott and Nancy Eaton, will be racing their boat in Southern California bring the fleet up to 14 boats! “Renard”, the name of their Open 5.70, will be living in a slip in Dana Point, CA.

A new Open 5.70 has joined the Northern California fleet! Dave & Jen took delivery of their boat today in Marina del Rey (pictures). Congratulations and welcome to the fleet!

USA 822 came out of our shipyard on February the 8th and was launched on the 9th out of Marina Del Rey.

This Pogo 2, race number USA 822 was named by the new owner MINI BAR! The name just set the tone!!

The new owner, Yves, just can’t wait to go out and experienced the thrilled of sailing and racing his boat. (more…)

A new Pogo 2 is joining the Southern California racing and sailing scene. Yves, his wife and their 2 kids are excited about their new Pogo 2 and just signed up for one! One of the condition imposed to Open Sailing is the design of a little toilet seat down below for the ladies (daughter and wife). Other than that, Yves is excited about racing his boat single handed, double handed or with friends. We are looking forward to having Yves and his Pogo 2 in Marina Del Rey. This will allow great practice and a fantastic learning curve as Team Open Sailing gets geared up for Pacific Cup in July 2012. Who knows, Yves might race aboard his Pogo 2 as well!

It is to say that Yves didn’t just buy the Pogo 2 because it is the most beautiful boat out there. Yves was highly impressed by Open Sailing. Yves realized that when purchasing a boat from Open Sailing, he was going to benefit from Open Sailing’s builder support but also Open Sailing’s experience in sailing, boat preparation and racing. Having met some of the Open 5.70 owners and the success of the fleet in California, Yves realized that Open Sailing was following the same route , this time offshore, with the Pogo 2.

We are thrilled to have Yves in the fleet. His boat should be ready early 2012!

Pogo 2: do you have what it takes to sail one?

The latest Open 5.70 to join the Southern California Fleet is USA 310… welcome Magnus!!

The Mini Fastnet is a very well known race in the European Mini Circuit that usually takes the sailors (double handed on the Mini) from Douardenez, France to the Fastnet Rock, in Ireland, and back. The weather is considered the toughest for the mini sailors, and this year, because of gale force wind in the English Channel, the race organizers decided to send the racers to course “B”, that is all the way down to the Gironde Estuary, in the South West of France, and back. The race was about 480 nm with still plenty of breeze.

In a fleet of 75 boats where over 30 boats were racing in the “Serie” class, the Pogo 2 proved, once again, to be the best Production Mini out there. The Top 7 finishers are all Pogo 2 which confirms that the 2003 FINOT design has still many years of racing success still ahead! Peraphs the most impressive is that, the top three arrived within 1 minute and 7 seconds… ! Xavier Macaire (last year’s winner) and Kan Chuh (Vmax) arrived 21 seconds before Benoit Mariette and Grégoire Mouly (Odalys vacances) whom crossed the finishing line 46 seconds before Davy Beaudart and Nicolas Bunoust (Innovea Environnement).

Great racing! To read more about the 2011 Mini Fastnet, please follow this link.

Also, more photos of the race by Ricochets 17 or some practice in the breeze before the race by Gildas Hemon.

The 3rd Pogo 2 “made in the USA” was delivered on May 27th to the Hamptons and launched out of Sag Harbor, NY. The Pogo 2 crossed the USA, escaped a couple of tornados in Oklahoma and the flood out of Missouri to arrive Thursday night in Sag Harbor. (more…)