Pogo 36
Pogo Structures · Jean-Marie Finot · 2016
Updated
The Pogo 36 is a 10.86 m planing racing yacht designed by Jean-Marie Finot and built by Pogo Structures, first launched in 2016. It races in Class B. Across the measured fleet it goes better than its own numbers promise, ahead of 49% of the designs it races against. It comes alive as the breeze builds, and gives time away in the light.
Goes better than its own measurements promise, and does it better than 49% of the boats it races against.
47th of 92 in its class.
Not verified. On planing hulls this score has no match in the race results we hold: designs scoring the same win anywhere from one race in ten to seven in ten. Read it as what the measurements say, not as a ranking.
This design has been found in real race results — 31 starts across 11 events — not only in measurement files.
Length
10.86 m
35′ 8″
Beam
4.00 m
Draft
2.92 m
Displacement
3.9 t
Sail area
82 m²
On the podium
Where a Pogo 36 finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
23%
of 31 starts by 9 boats
Wins
0%
Read from 31 starts by 9 boats between 2023 and 2026, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Pogo 36 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Vento de l'Alguer2026- 151 Miglia - Trofeo Cetilar2026
- Coppa Regina dei Paesi Bassi2026
Island Offshore - Race to the Arctic2026
Miar2026
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: 9 races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
8%
of these races end on the podium
Who she races against
The designs a Pogo 36 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Also met, too few times for a figure:
Salona 45 (7 meetings), First 31.7 (6 meetings), First 36.7 (5 meetings), Queen 34 (5 meetings), Dufour 430 (5 meetings), Dufour 34 (6 meetings), Sun Fast 3600 (6 meetings), First 40.7 (5 meetings), Comet 38 (Vallicelli) (6 meetings), Hanse 370 (4 meetings), J/122 (3 meetings), Grand Soleil 46 (Carkeek) (3 meetings), Solaris 44 (4 meetings), Grand Soleil 48 (5 meetings), First 34.7 (4 meetings), Elan 333 (5 meetings), First 50 (5 meetings), Este 39 (3 meetings)
Some of the boats it races against
How the Pogo 36 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
5.89
37°
Beam reach
10.23
90°
Broad reach
12.72
135°
Downwind VMG
9.44
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.
It needs pressure to show what it can do. 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 when it blows, where it does more than its size and sail area promise, and by a margin worth having. It holds that advantage downwind as well, so the gain is not down to one leg of the course.
Where it pays
It falls short running deep when the breeze is soft, 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 2.2 kn either way.
At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the beam reach.
How fast is a Pogo 36
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.85 | 5.26 | 5.71 | 5.89 |
| 52° | 5.83 | 7.54 | 8.05 | 8.33 |
| 60° | 6.26 | 7.78 | 8.37 | 8.72 |
| 75° | 6.65 | 8.15 | 8.89 | 9.40 |
| 90° | 6.62 | 8.28 | 9.36 | 10.23 |
| 110° | 6.26 | 8.37 | 9.68 | 11.32 |
| 120° | 6.08 | 8.25 | 9.95 | 11.96 |
| 135° | 5.43 | 7.75 | 9.35 | 12.72 |
| 150° | 4.55 | 6.88 | 8.35 | 10.90 |
| Run VMG | 3.94 | 5.96 | 7.24 | 9.44 |
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 36 rig and sail dimensions
A Pogo 36 carries 13.85 m of mainsail hoist on a 4.12 m boom, a forestay 14.46 m above the deck and a 6.60 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 14 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails
The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 110 to 151 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.