New Boats Table
in association with the Spinlock Special Projects Team Look behind the curtain
Pogo Structures went to some lengths to convince us that, even if it exists, a Pogo Mini foiler is a development concept and nothing would appear until the end of 2019 at least
In fact, a brand new Guillaume Verdier-designed Mini 6.50 Pogo foiler will be sailing by mid-April. The (surprise) programme for the boat is that it will be tested in good time to qualify for the Mini Transat this September. There she will compete with the fast- expanding scow contingency as well as a small number of rival Mini-foilers. Plus of course 70 or so ‘conventional’ designs. Christian Bouroullec is the founder of Pogo Structures and with
a little love he opened up for his good friend Patrice Carpentier: ‘As you know we have a great history in the Mini Class with Series and Proto designs. The Pogo 3 is our latest Series boat and it has been very successful; in 2016 this boat actually won every race in the Mini Class in the Series division. In total we have now built over 300 Minis of different types! ‘The new Pogo Foiler is designed by Guillaume Verdier, who is
also the designer of our successful Series Pogo 3. But Pogo Foiler is a very special boat and completely different from the Pogo 3. For a start the first boat is being constructed entirely in carbon because with the weight of the foils – which must be very strong – there was no possibility of using normal glass and resin systems without making the boat much too heavy. ‘The story of this boat is now becoming not so secret, but to be
honest we will still be extremely careful before considering putting this design onto the market. We know that foilers can go fast but none of the two existing Mini foilers have won any races! ‘Our only purpose is to produce a winning boat as we do with
the Pogo 3, which is still the boat to beat in the Series Mini category… although the scows will give us a fight this year. ‘Verdier has actually been working hard on this project since the Mini 6.50 rule for Protos was changed last winter, to accept much
Custom builds BOAT
Mini 6.50 Proto Mini 6.50 Proto Solo 38P NMD 43 Carlini 43 Tison 48
Oceantec 50 Natural High
Corum l’Epargne Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 Apivia
Arkea Paprec Imoca 60 Hugo Boss
Baltic 67 (no2) MD73
Maori Magic Flying Ahead Wally 93
Swan 125
Baltic 142DSS Wally 145
6.5m
LOA DESIGNER 6.5m
Guillaume Verdier Thomas Tison
13.03m Nivelt & Muratet Design 13.1m
11.52m Stephens Waring Carlini Design
Bakewell-White Yacht Design
18.28m Juan Yacht Design 18.28m VPLP-Verdier 18.28m VPLP
18.28m Sam Manuard 18.28m Guillaume Verdier 18.28m Juan Yacht Design 18.28m Juan Yacht Design 18.28m VPLP/Hugo Boss 20.83m Judel/Vrolijk 22.2m Mills Design
22.7m Emirates Team NZ 24m
Banque Populaire XI 30.3m Sodebo Liara
34m 43.3m Baltic 146 Custom 44.6m
28.3m Judel-Vrolijk 30.3m 37.9m
44.2m Frers Judel/Vrolijk
Chaves & Bottino VPLP/Banque Pop
Bañuls/VPLP/Fisher Malcolm McKeon Juan Kouyoumdjian Farr Yacht Design
BUILDER Pogo Structures
Knierim Yachtbau SoCal
Ocean Tec Slovenia Piermarine Argentina
14.54m Thomas Tison (and Airbus...) Multiplast/Jan Bruegge 15.15m Humphreys Yacht Design 18m
Ocean Tec Slovenia Noosa Marine CDK/Multiplast CDK
Multiplast
Black Pepper CDK CDK
Tender
Carrington Boats Baltic Yachts
MD Technologies
ETNZ (with Verdier of course) MCP Yachts Brazil Wally Yachts Multiplast-CDK Multiplast-CDK Baltic Yachts Nautor’s Swan Baltic Yachts Persico, Italy Baltic Yachts
Most had expected Pogo Structures to be working on a scow but few had anticipated that it would be featuring foils from the start. Expect Guillaume Verdier to deliver something fast and reliable
wider boats than we were allowed before.’ (Actually, the new rule says that your boat can now be 6.50m wide when sailing at sea but only 3m wide when in port – so 6.50m wide and 6.50m long!) So we know the first boat will be a Proto. We do not know if the
plan is to build more Protos or one day even create a Series foiler. Boat no1 has a canting keel, of course, like all Protos, but beyond that… I did ask Christian a little more about the foils that Verdier has designed – no reply. ‘So what about the rudders, will you use elevators this time?’ No reply. But we know the boat will soon be sailing. And that Guillaume
Verdier is very excited about her! Patrice Carpentier
LAUNCH April 2019
March 2019 April 2019
Sep 2017 onwards May 2019
Spring 2019
May 2019 onwards April 2019 Jan 2020 April 2019 July 2019 July 2019 July 2019 May 2019 2020
Mid-2019 May 2019 Jan 2019 July 2019 April 2019 Feb 2019 Jan 2021
Spring 2019 June 2019 March 2019 May 2019 Mid-2019 2021
COMMENTS
There’s been a smokescreen around the new Pogo foiler… but it will race the Mini Transat Delayed – but this one’s a toyshop, scow hull, powerful foils and a stonking-looking rig Swift-looking café racer for shorthanded sailing. Lots of buttons… and varnish-work Tidy-looking development of the A13 Teasing Machine. The first boat quickly impressed Contemporary-looking shorthanded tool par excellence… but with a full (if light) interior Very light cruiser-racer. Spruce hull, carbon structure and deck all weighing just 8 tonnes Spacious and stylish performance cruiser that actually promises some real performance Good-looking one-off catamaran cruiser-racer from a shrewd Kiwi designer Two-time Figaro winner Nicolas Troussel’s new project is being managed by Mer Agitée Banque Pop X is the ex-SMA/Macif Vendée Globe winner being refitted for Clarisse Crémer Kojiro Shiraishi is building a new boat for the Vendée using the Charal moulds Long overdue… top Class40 designer Sam Manuard’s first Imoca is for Armel Tripon Another Figaro frontrunner gets the big break – François Gabart protégé Charlie Dalin This will be interesting, a new Imoca 60 for Sébastien Simon managed by Vincent Riou Juan K has one more Imoca still to go… this one targeted at the ‘Not-The-Volvo-Race’ With so much team input another Hugo Boss Imoca that wanders away from the herd Second one out. Nimble-looking comfy cruiser-racer. Most appealing, Mr Bond Contemporary performance cruiser – maybe series production? Well, maybe… And of course there are at least four other AC75s underway now as well
Interesting performance cruiser with foil-assist for righting moment and pitch-damping Smaller (even lighter) Wally is aggressively styled and reflects the latest Maxi72s Is there a better supporter of sailing anywhere in the world – some bounce back Thomas Coville is splitting from the pack with his new Ultime. Much anticipated puppy All-carbon build, hybrid power and lots of sail for this sporty little number Lots of wrapping paper please – the first one-off custom Superyacht from Swan Radical… or maybe not? DSS makes good sense for a boat of this type
The biggest yet from Persico. Very light at 171 tonnes. Hybrid power for silent running Big, fast and fruity-looking new cruiser-racer from Rolfie. Will appear regatta ready
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