Pogo Structures

Pogo Structures
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryBoat building
Founded1987
Headquarters
Combrit
,
France
Key people
Christian Bouroullec
ProductsSailboats
Websitewww.pogostructures.com

Pogo Structures is a French boat builder founded in Quimper by Christian Bouroullec in 1987. The company moved in 1990 to Combrit,[1] specializes in the design and manufacture of racing and cruising sailboats.[2][3] It launched its first motor boat in 2017.[4]

As of 2020, the 80 people shipyard has produced 900 boats, with an average of 55 per year over the last few years.[5]

Construction

Pogo Structures uses, since 2004, the vacuum infusion process to build lightweight and stiff fiberglass sandwich boats.[6] Starting 2007, the cruising range benefits from a lifting keel option.[7]

Cruising sailboats

Name Designer Years LOA No. Built Notes
Pogo 50 Finot-Conq 2012-present 15.20 m (49.9 ft) [8]
Pogo 44 Finot-Conq 2020-present 13.55 m (44.5 ft) [9]
Pogo 12.50 Finot-Conq 2011-2022 12.50 m (41.0 ft) 82 [10]
Pogo 40 Finot-Conq 2005-2009 12.18 m (40.0 ft) 45 [11]
Pogo 36 Finot-Conq 2016-present 10.86 m (35.6 ft)
Pogo 10.50 Finot-Conq 2008-2014 10.50 m (34.4 ft) 75 [12][13]
Pogo 30 Finot-Conq 2013-present 9.14 m (30.0 ft)
Pogo 8.50 Pierre Rolland 1999-2010 8.50 m (27.9 ft) 187 Voiles Magazine sailboat of the Year 2001[14]

Racing sailboats

Name Designer Years LOA No. Built Notes
Pogo 40s4 Guillaume Verdier 2020-present 12.19 m (40.0 ft) [15]
Pogo 40s3 Finot-Conq 2014-2016 12.18 m (40.0 ft) [16]
Pogo 40s2 Finot-Conq 2009-2014 12.18 m (40.0 ft) [17]
Pogo foiler Guillaume Verdier 2018-present 6.50 m (21.3 ft) [18]
Pogo 3 Guillaume Verdier 2015-present 6.50 m (21.3 ft)
Pogo 2 Finot-Conq 2003-2009 6.50 m (21.3 ft) 111 [19][20]
Pogo Pierre Roland 1994-2002 6.50 m (21.3 ft) 124 [21]

Motor boats

Name Designer Years LOA No. Built Notes
Loxo 32 Pogo Structures 2017-present 9.50 m (31.2 ft)
Loxo 32 outboard Pogo Structures 2020-present 9.50 m (31.2 ft) [22]
Loxo 32 electric Pogo Structures 2020-present 9.50 m (31.2 ft) [23]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Pogo Structures". infogreffe.com.
  2. ^ "Pogo Structures". sailboatdata.com.
  3. ^ "The shipyard". Pogo Structures website.
  4. ^ "Is the best motorboat a sailboat without a mast? The Loxo 32 from Pogo is here!". Scandinavian Mariner magazine. 6 March 2020.
  5. ^ "Interview of Christian Bouroullec". No frills sailing.
  6. ^ "Loxo 32: Pogo's Power Cruiser". Professional BoatBuilder magazine. 24 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Pogo announces the arrival of the Pogo 44". yachtingart.
  8. ^ "ARC: designer and builder go racing". Yachting World. 28 November 2012.
  9. ^ "New Pogo 44 is Something Completely Different". Blue Water Sailing. 22 April 2020.
  10. ^ "In production since 2010, the 82nd and last Pogo 12.50 has been delivered!". Pogo - Chantier Naval Structures. 24 June 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  11. ^ "Pogo 40". Pogo Structures website.
  12. ^ "Pogo 10.50". Pogot Structures website.
  13. ^ "Pogo 10.50". boat-specs.com.
  14. ^ "Pogo 8.50". boat-specs.com.
  15. ^ "Pogo 40s4". Ouest Atlantis (in French).
  16. ^ "Pogo 40s3". boat-specs.com.
  17. ^ "Pogo 40s2". boat-specs.com.
  18. ^ "A new pogo 6.50 currently under construction at Pogo Structures". Guillaume Verdier architecture navale.
  19. ^ "Pogo 2". Pogo Structures website.
  20. ^ "Pogo 2". Group Finot.
  21. ^ "Pogo 1". Pogo Structures website.
  22. ^ "Presentation of the new boat POGO-Structures: The LOXO 32 version Outboard". Sail World.
  23. ^ "Pogo, Oceanvolt combine for Loxo 32 electric cruiser". plugboats.com. 15 March 2020.