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Ack about electric drive, my thoughts are around a hybrid system with a Diesel genset with enough ooph. But from my early stage RnD they're heavier than the Volvo it'd replace. Maybe the total weight of electric sail drive, genset, and lithium is roughly the equivalent of the Volvo with standard batteries. Plenty of time ahead to produce a spreadsheet about that.

So far so good. The 36 is holding on. It's the smallest boat in the Racing A fleet with everything being 50ft+ except for the other Pogos and one Corby 45. The 36 is a charter boat as far as I can tell (the name comes up on various chartering websites). Probably a delivery to the Caribbean for the winter. Same goes for one of the Pogo 12.50 which is a pay to play/race operation. With the ARC it's hard to tell how serious each team is about the racing or if it's just a fast flotilla. Anyhow, I take the data. So little out there about the 36 to pass time. I have currently not bugged

Tomorrow is the start of the ARC 2018 with one Pogo 36, one 30 and two 12.50. Should be interesting to see how they fare for 3000nm in the trades. https://www.worldcruising.com/arc/arc_2018_evententries.aspx

I'm on the east coast of USA but the boat will probably stay in Europe with me moving back home. I have not sailed the 36 yet but I have chartered the 8.50 in the Caribbean and did some long distance sailing on the 10.50 along with meeting that boat's previous owner (Charlie himself). I'll try to visit the factory on one of my next trips to Brittany.

Hello, I stumbled onto this thread through searching for Pogo 36 stuff. I made a deposit a few months ago, current wait time is about 3.5 years. Curious to hear if your wait ended up any shorter due to some people dropping out? Looking forward to read about the build process.