No dockside walkthrough here — this video puts you on watch mid-Gulf Stream, where a 2012 Pogo 12.50 shows what it was built for.
Most boat videos are filmed at the dock. This one wasn’t. The footage accompanying the listing for S/V Hermes, a 2012 Pogo 12.50, is shot underway on an offshore passage — crew in foulies, spray flying, and the running commentary of people who are genuinely, cheerfully soaked.
“We officially just crossed the Gulf Stream,” one of the crew notes from below, with Aubrey at the helm and Ben trimming. Asked if it’s wet out there, the answer is a masterpiece of offshore understatement: “A little wet.” The narrator is off watch with two hours to rest, trying and failing to sleep, then later trying and failing to read. By the end of the clip it’s the second-to-last night of what he reckons is a six-day run. “I’m so salty.”
The numbers that matter
The moment that tells you most about this boat is the informal speed-record contest running among the crew. One helmsman claims 13.6 knots. Another tops him at 14.1. Whoever loses, by the sound of it, buys the drinks — or eats seaweed. That’s the Pogo 12.50 in a sentence: a 40-footer that turns a delivery into a competition over who can make it plane hardest.
For a prospective buyer, the video is arguably more useful than a cabin-by-cabin tour. It answers the question that spec sheets can’t: what is this boat actually like when the weather isn’t cooperating and you still have three days to go? The answer appears to be fast, lively, and manageable enough that the off-watch crew are grumbling about sleep rather than about the boat.
Where she sits in the market
Pogos don’t come up often on the brokerage market, and the 12.50 in particular is a boat people tend to keep and use hard rather than trade in. The current picture on YachtSite is genuinely thin:
| Active Pogo 12.50 listings | 1 |
|---|---|
| Asking range | $199,000 |
| Median asking | $199,000 |
With a single boat on the market, there’s no price ladder to compare against — what you’re evaluating is this particular 2012 hull, its history, and how it’s been sailed. On the evidence of the video, it’s been sailed properly.
Anyone shopping for a shorthanded offshore platform — someone with a Bermuda run, a Caribbean season, or a transatlantic on the whiteboard — should watch this clip before reading another brochure. Broker Ted Reshetiloff is handling the listing and can fill in the inventory, survey history, and equipment details the footage doesn’t cover.
View the full listing on YachtSite.com
| Crew member (13.6 kt) | 13.6 | |||
| Ben (14.1 kt) | 14.1 |