Friday, August 31, 2012

Pogo 12.50 "Easy" sail data:


Pictures of our big brother "Surfing petrel", Pogo 50 hull #1.
The stern is as wide as it gets...


Thursday, August 30, 2012

Dolphins by DJ Lelic:

s/v "Easy"
Shipyard: http://www.pogostructures.com
Hull #16, built spring-summer 2012:




New technology in sailing: Hydro generator Watt and Sea
We measured approx. 20 amps (12 VDC) at 8 kts of cruising speed.
http://www.wattandsea.com/en


Our solar panel rated at 120 W measured in a sunny day only up to 6 amps (approx. 90 W):

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Some photos from Crossing Biscay:

... easy on the autopilot:



... not so easy in 30 kts winds:


Sunday, August 26, 2012

Our next voyage:
Lissabon – Alicante, September 15 – 22


Friday, August 24, 2012

Thursday, August 23, 2012



First voyage:

Ste-Marine, Bretagne, FRANCE
Ribadeo, Spain
Finisterre, Spain
Lisbon, Portugal

850 nm, Aug 12 – Aug 21, 2012

Marc Zavadil's detailed report (8 Megs PDF download)

Pogo 12.50 data


        
Boat:
Model: Pogo 12.50
LOA: 12.50 m
Max beam: 4.50 m
Displacement: 6 ton
Lifting keel 3.0 m / 1.2 m
Cat. A Ocean
Made by Structures, France
Hull #16, year of production 2012

Equipment:
Vacuum infused vynilesther hull
Carbon mast Z-Spars
Carbon bowsprit
Lifting keel
Twin rudders
Volvo Penta 30HP folding prop
4 x 110 Ah 12 V battery bank
2 x 60 W on-deck flex solar panels
Facnor genoa furling
Facnor gennaker furling
Windlass Crystal 800
Large spray hood
Eberspacher Airtronic D2 heating
Water heating / pressure
2 x 200 L fresh water tanks
Hydrogenerator WattandSea
Viking Liferaft
New! Spectra Ventura 150 Watermaker
VHF radio Icom IC-M505
AIS Icom MA500TR
EPIRB
B&G H3000 Hercules CPU and instruments
B&G Pilot ACP and 3-axes HGSC compass
B&G instrument / pilot displays 2 in / 2 out
New! B&G RemoteVision
B&G ZEUS nav station with ZG50 GPS
B&G sensors: air pressure, air temp, water temp
Ocean wind sensor
Inflatable dingy 2.3 m

Sails:
Incidences flat top hydranet main (60 m2), 3 reefs, cars
Incidences furling solent (44 m2), 3 battens
Incidences hydranet staysail (26.5 m2) with reef band, 2 reefs
Incidences gennaker (code5) stromlite 3.5 oz (104 m2) on furling
Incidences medium asymmetric spinaker 1.5 oz (155 m2) with sock
Incidences storm tri-sail fluo-orange dacron 9.3 oz (8 m2)

2015 racing program:
Racing main (OneSails 4T)
Racing non-furling solent (OneSails 4T)
Code-0 (OneSails M3)
Racing gennaker A3 (OneSails)
Lateral backstays (Ubi Mayor)
New jib sheet hardware (Ubi Mayor)
New 2 additional winches (Harken 55)
Upgraded mainsheet rigging
Carbon tiller

General specs of the boat:


Launched in Benodet – Ste Marine, Bretagne, Aug 1, 2012