Pogo 40 Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a Pogo 40 means chasing a small cohort: just 45 were built between 2005 and 2009, a 12.18-metre Finot-Conq offshore design that still reads as a purposeful racer-cruiser rather than a soft cruiser. The type splits into cruising and Class 40 guises with several keel choices, so a buyer's first job is matching the hull under offer to the kind of sailing intended.
Layouts on the Used Market
Both owner three-cabin and charter four-cabin arrangements are well represented, and ex-charter examples are common on the market. The original accommodation held eight berths between the saloon and two independent cabins, with a large central navigation station at the companionway and a galley offered in two placements, so the charter conversions simply repackage that volume. A large aft toilet remains a constant. Buyers should note that a former charter history is not unusual and may mean heavier wear than a privately kept cruising version.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Most boats on the market carry a short-handed setup as standard intent, and commonly fitted gear includes autopilot, solar, chartplotter, AIS, EPIRB, and life raft for safe offshore work, with lithium batteries and an inverter supporting the house loads. Sail inventory usually includes a spinnaker, asymmetric spinnaker, and code zero. Often-seen additions are watermaker, radar, and Starlink, while hot water appears only as a less common owner upgrade. For a buyer, the meaningful clusters are power and energy — solar, lithium, inverter — which determine silent anchoring time; and sail handling — the code zero and asymmetric gear — which define how easily she sails shorthanded.
What to Inspect
The hull is solid glass-polyester over PVC foam structured by stringers, ballast-ribs, two mast frames, and four bulkheads anchor, so check those structural members for compression or delamination. The water-ballast system uses two 750-litre tanks per side; verify pumps, valves, and tank integrity, since flooded or leaking ballast changes trim and behaviour. Keel versions vary — fixed 3-metre or 2.20-metre, and lifting 1.20/3-metre QR — so confirm the actual keel and its mechanism, and where the bulb-fin keel is fitted expect a loaded draught near 3.00 to 3.10 metres anchor. The 30 CV diesel should be run and checked, as should the carbon mast and simple fractional rig.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
Typical markets are France, Portugal, United Kingdom, Greece, and Australia. For a buyer, the short checklist is: confirm keel type and lifting function if QR; test water-ballast tanks and plumbing; inspect stringers and bulkheads; verify solar-lithium-inverter energy suite; and establish charter versus private history. The Pogo 40 rewards the careful shopper with a light, fast, manageable offshore 40-foot design in small supply.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Pogo 40. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 8 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25 | 1 | $733,841 | — |
| Dec 25 | 1 | $209,669 | -71.4% |
| Jan 26 | 1 | $168,900 | -19.4% |
| Feb 26 | 2 | $85,420 | -49.4% |
| Mar 26 | 2 | $194,526 | +127.7% |
| Apr 26 | 6 | $126,794 | -34.8% |
| May 26 | 1 | $173,559 | +36.9% |
| Aug 26 | 4 | $215,493 | +24.2% |
Where they're listed
Pogo 40 listings appear across 6 countries. France has the most listings with 5 (27.8%), followed by United Kingdom and Netherlands.
Country view
18 listings · 6 countries| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | $210,290 | 5 | 0 | 27.8% |
| United Kingdom | $67,832 | 3 | 0 | 16.7% |
| Netherlands | $215,493 | 3 | 3 | 16.7% |
| Portugal | $185,756 | 3 | 0 | 16.7% |
| Australia | $69,854 | 2 | 1 | 11.1% |
| Greece | $133,955 | 2 | 0 | 11.1% |
Comparable models
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Similar boats to compare
4 similar designs| Model | LOA | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nautitech 40 | 39.67' | $ 225,000 | 21 | 4 |
| Pogo 40You are here | — | $ 185,482 | 18 | 4 |
| Jeanneau Sun Fast 40 | 40' | $ 167,735 | 13 | 2 |
| North End 40 | 39.83' | $ 29,000 | 7 | 0 |