Pogo 10.50
Chantier Structure · Jean-Marie Finot · 2008
Updated
The Pogo 10.50 is a 10.49 m planing racing yacht designed by Jean-Marie Finot and built by Chantier Structure, first launched in 2008. It races in Class B.
Length
10.49 m
34′ 5″
Beam
3.90 m
Draft
2.88 m
Displacement
3.9 t
Sail area
73 m²
On the podium
Where a Pogo 10.50 finishes when she goes racing.
0
Wins
0
Seconds
0
Thirds
7
Starts
Not enough races yet for a percentage — these are the counts so far. We keep collecting results, so this will fill in.
Read from 7 starts by 3 boats between 2015 and 2025, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Pogo 10.50 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
70a Regata dei Tre Golfi2025- 3G2024
Int. Deutsche Meisterschaft Offshore Seesegeln2024- Regata dei Cinque Fari2023
- Round Aeolian Race2022
Raced one we are missing?
Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat. Here is how this one does in each.
Round the buoys
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Not enough data yet: no races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 5 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The designs a Pogo 10.50 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Also met, too few times for a figure:
J/122 (4 meetings), Dufour 34 (4 meetings), IMX 45 (3 meetings), First 45 (Briand) (3 meetings), First 40 (6 meetings), Solaris 44 (4 meetings), First 34.7 (4 meetings), Farr 45 (3 meetings), Ker 46 (4 meetings), X-332 (3 meetings), First 36.7 (3 meetings), X-41 (4 meetings), Grand Soleil 43 (Maletto) (3 meetings), Sun Fast 3300 (Andrieu) (3 meetings), Italia 11.98 (3 meetings), Swan 42 (2 meetings), First 31.7 (3 meetings), Grand Soleil 46 (Carkeek) (2 meetings), X-50 (2 meetings), Xp 44 (3 meetings), First 35 (Farr) (2 meetings), Sun Fast 3600 (2 meetings), First 50 (4 meetings), Este 39 (2 meetings), Pogo 44 (2 meetings), First 40.7 (2 meetings), Dufour 455 (2 meetings), TP 52 (Judel/Vrolijk) (2 meetings), Pogo 850 (2 meetings), J/99 (2 meetings), Pogo 36 (2 meetings), Comet 33 (2 meetings), Sly 42 (2 meetings), Oceanis 31 (2 meetings), X-35 (2 meetings), Comet 45 (2 meetings), Vismara 40 (2 meetings), Italia 10.98 (2 meetings), First 44.7 (2 meetings)
Some of the boats it races against
How the Pogo 10.50 has fared against each of them, boat against boat on corrected time. Ordered by how often the two meet, not by who wins.
Speed at every angle
The shape of this design's speed, drawn from the measured fleet. Pick a wind and watch it stretch.
Upwind VMG
5.65
38°
Beam reach
9.97
90°
Broad reach
12.51
135°
Downwind VMG
9.45
170°
Speed in knots at 20 knots of true wind. Green marks the angles that pay: the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Where it wins and where it pays
Every boat is judged against its own measurements — length, weight, sail area. The quicker those say it should be, the more it has to deliver just to break even. Going fast is not enough: it has to go faster than its own numbers promised.
This is a boat that wants breeze. Give it a fresh day and long legs and it delivers more than it promised; in a drifter it is working uphill.
Where it gains
Its best ground is off the wind once it pipes up, where it does more than its size and sail area promise, and by a margin worth having. It holds that advantage on the run as well, so the gain is not down to one leg of the course.
Where it pays
It falls short on the run in light air, giving away time it never gets back. A planing hull rarely rewards a drifter: there is not enough pressure to get anything out of it.
Above the line it delivers more than promised and gains on the fleet. Below, it falls short. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 2.4 kn either way.
At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the beam reach.
How fast is a Pogo 10.50
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.57 | 4.98 | 5.46 | 5.65 |
| 52° | 5.40 | 7.20 | 7.72 | 7.99 |
| 60° | 5.67 | 7.42 | 8.03 | 8.39 |
| 75° | 5.83 | 7.59 | 8.52 | 9.15 |
| 90° | 5.89 | 7.82 | 8.70 | 9.97 |
| 110° | 5.98 | 8.13 | 9.50 | 10.81 |
| 120° | 5.81 | 8.02 | 9.81 | 11.66 |
| 135° | 5.15 | 7.52 | 9.23 | 12.51 |
| 150° | 4.33 | 6.61 | 8.16 | 10.91 |
| Run VMG | 3.75 | 5.73 | 7.06 | 9.45 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Nearly all carry a folding propeller. A bowsprit is standard across the fleet. Crew weight is declared around 550 kg.
Rigging
Pogo 10.50 rig and sail dimensions
A Pogo 10.50 carries 13.56 m of mainsail hoist on a 4.74 m boom, a forestay 14.00 m above the deck and a 6.48 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 5 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails
The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 100 to 134 m² depending on bowsprit and set-up. Before ordering a sail, read the figure on your own measurement record rather than the typical one for the design.