Custom designs Daughter of Lann Ael When Pogo RC no1 came out of the shed in February the answer was already obvious…
The first and second of the two most eagerly anticipated new production IRC designs of recent years are sailing and it’s not yet spring. Last month we took an advanced sighting of designer Jacques Valer’s new JPK 1050… She looks good and will continue to add to JPK’s already warehouse-sized trophy cabinet. A nod to Manuard- Nivelt’s all-conquering Lan Ael 3but maybe a bit softer in approach. With the slightly smaller (by 20cm) Pogo RC, however, the lineage
screams out from the first time you see what is an unashamedly purposeful IRC racer. Here again is the 35ft Lan Ael, except the same designers have extracted similar power out of a slightly smaller, lighter boat while keeping the generous sailplan. Aside from that, and a more aggressive side-on profile, the new Pogo boasts a smaller cast iron keel fin and lead bulb, versus the fatter ‘French’ IRC fin on its custom-built predecessor. We guess similar wetted area but relatively more righting moment. The new genre of IRC racer in the 30-35ft range is singularly driven by the ‘go fast, rate whatever’ school of IRC thinking. It works
Custom builds BOAT
5.5 Metre
11.80 Custom Fly40 AC40
Musa 40 Raison 40 Dibley 40 Lift40-V3B Mach40.6 MaX 40 V2
Pogo 40S4 V2 Agité 40 IRC42
X-Yachts XR Lift 45
LOA DESIGNER 10.1m Dave Hollom
11.8m Jacques Valer/JPK
BUILDER Composite Craft
JPK/CD Boats
11.8m Caponnetto Hueber/Pure Design Persico 12.12m Team New Zealand 12.18m Gianluca Guelfi 12.18m David Raison 12.18m Kevin Dibley
12.18m Guillaume Verdier 12.18m CT Mer Forte 12.72m Botín Partners 12.74m X-Yachts Design
Lyman Morse 46 13.95m Kevin Dibley Vismara V48 Vintage 14.6m Vismara/Villani Dazcat 1495 SailGP F50 Arcona 50 RP52
14.95m Dazcat Design 15.2m Sail GP
Wallyrocket 51 IRC 52
M&M 55 Imoca 60 Imoca 60 IRC82
Verdier 100 SW100X Gitana 18
Ferrari V-100 Wally 110 Project 404
15.8m Jeppesen & Pons 15.85m Reichel/Pugh 15.85m Botín Partners 15.85m Botín Partners 16.7m Morrelli & Melvin 18.28m VPLP
18.28m Verdier, Finot, VPLP 25m
Judel-Vrolijk
30.53m Guillaume Verdier 30.53m Farr Yacht Design 30.53m Guillaume Verdier 30.6m Guillaume Verdier 34.2m Judel/Vrolijk/Wally 59.7m Malcolm McKeon
McConaghy, China
Sangiorgio Marine, Genoa Gepeto Composites
12.18m Marc Lombard Yacht Design Gepeto Composites 12.18m Sam Manuard 12.18m David Raison
JPS Productions
Structures Shipyard Mer Agité
Carrington Boats X-Yachts
13.88m Marc Lombard Yacht Design SR Structure, UK Lyman Morse
Vismara Marine Concepts Dazcat
Sail GP Technologies Arcona Yachts
Sail GP Technologies Wally Yachts
Sail GP Technologies
Schooner Creek Boat Works Duqueine Atlantique CDK & Multiplast
King Marine, Valencia Persico
Southern Wind Shipyard Gitana/Multiplast/CDK Persico/Soldini/Ferrari Wally Ferretti Group Royal Huisman
Carbon Developments NZ JPS Productions
with the TP52s, and Lan Ael proved that it can work equally well at a smaller size. But designers can’t be shy; fast is good, fast is fun; while IRC deserves another pat on the back for promoting boats like this that just beg to go sailing. Below the water the Pogo RC exhibits a super-smooth hull shape
which gives the impression of curving up from the keel in every direction in a way that almost appears symmetrical. It’s not symmetrical, obviously, but that is a measure of how little the water molecules should suffer with the passage of this little racer. Up top and things are far from smooth. The Pogo deck is a very
angular thing; angular enough to revive memories of the low freeboard, egg box-coachroof Half Tonners of the latter days of IOR. And courageously perhaps, for a production design, there is no concession whatsoever to a ‘popular’ aesthetic; but this is Seahorse so fast is beautiful and little else matters. To us the spikey, angular Pogo RC is as beautiful a small raceboat as we ever saw. The waiting list is getting longer. This one’s a ‘Buy’.
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Faster in a breeze, rig tweaks quickly sorted the light-air pace. Hollom’s latest champion 5.5 Admiral’s Cup 2025 and the Sunrise team have been tweaking the product One-design mini AC75… For those for whom the RC44 became, well, a bit of a yawn The ultimate one-design class but to date demand seems limited to Cup groups (sad face) Remains the all-round Class40 of choice but supply is tight and they’re not cheap ‘Faster downwind’… New 40 for Jonas Gerckensi
New Zealand joins the Class40 in earnest with a sensible but pretty futuristic new offering A further update of the successful V2
Manuard is predicting earlier planing plus improved reaching pace. Six sold The latest series-built option from JPS and David Raison Vincent Riou’s S4 tried a trim-tab plus single rudder (nope – ed)
‘More robust’ Class40 from Michel Desjoyeaux for those with round-the-world ambitions Admiral’s Cup 2025 and a custom build to join Beau Geste in the Hong Kong A-Team X-Yachts return to the sharp end of the racing scene and with serious attitude Duh. We just realised this high-performance cruiser-racer is building opposite our office… A sailor’s yacht. Cold-moulded Douglas fir/Western red cedar. Yacht design is back to art Very classically modern… retro styled with the rig (almost) hanging off the back Ultim style A British yard with a lot to shout about. Fast exciting boats to push hard, roomy when not Up to no12 with maybe a couple more in the pipeline. Now building in Southampton too A yard that continues to impress as they refine their
work.Cool and in that Scandiwegan way! All-carbon high-performance push-button racer-cruiser from the ex-Core Composites team Admiral’s Cup 2025 Parada and Vascotto are both involved. Boat no1 now sailing Admiral’s Cup 2025 Full-on IRC racer. TP52 with the sharper edges knocked off Fast powercat for 49 passengers for whale watching in Maui. Sounds punishing With help from Airbus… A (genuinely) fascinating green project is back on track Up to eight build slots for the 2028 VG/2027 Ocean Race are bought and paid for Dangerously seductive-looking new maxi-sized racer-cruiser for European regattas A new Magic Carpet and from Verdier too… launching as we type Getting bigger and looking (even) better. And they make for the best pix too
New Gitana foiler, amazing it’s seven years since the first one which now becomes Actual 100ft foiler, yadayada… We hope not and that a red beast does one day materialise The second example of this luscious fast cruiser will launch late 2025
Aluminium hull, carbon up top… and a sloop (because one is always cheaper than two)
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