Aug
23
2012
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Pogo 2 #831, “C’s Folly” delivered…

Nik

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.

Written by Nik in: New Boats,Pogo 2 |
Aug
18
2012
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Pogo 2 #829, “Flying Fox”, delivered…

Nik

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.

Written by Nik in: New Boats,Pogo 2 |
Jun
01
2012
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USA 316

Nik

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.

Written by Nik in: New Boats,Open 570 |
May
06
2012
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USA 315

Nik

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!

Written by Nik in: New Boats |
Feb
13
2012
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Mini Bar!

Jerome

Pogo 2 USA 822 Mini Bar up in the air before touching the water.

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…)

Written by Jerome in: New Boats,Photos,Pogo 2 | Tags: ,
Nov
08
2011
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Production Update…

Jerome

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?

Written by Jerome in: New Boats,Pogo 2 |
Sep
29
2011
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USA 310 joins the Southern California Fleet.

Nik

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

Written by Nik in: New Boats,Open 570 |
Jul
05
2011
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2011 Mini Fastnet: Pogo 2 at the Top!

Jerome

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.

May
30
2011
0

USA 812 “New England Style”

Jerome


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…)

Written by Jerome in: Mini TransAt,New Boats,Pogo 2 | Tags: ,
Apr
08
2011
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Pogo 2 at the 2011 Oakland Boat Show

Nik
Looooooong Trip to San Francisco:
USA 806 took the road on Friday morning, around 6:30am. Unfortunately, our van’s turbo diesel was malfunctioning and we had no power going uphill…which translated into a 9 hour trip. It was painful to do 40mph driving up the grapevine outside of LA.
So instead of splashing the boat Friday afternoon as planned, we rigged the Open 5.70 (that we were towing as well) and raced last weekend with the Open 5.70 fleet.
Today, we splashed USA 806 out of Alameda Marina, stepped the mast and rigged the boat.
The crane worked great and Rich the harbormaster was super nice and make us feel home already!
We will move the boat tomorrow to Jack London Square at Oakland tomorrow.
Here are some photos…before we get the “good shots” during the show!
As mentioned before, 806 will be in San Francisco until the end of the month, so don’t wait to book your demo ride.