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Summit 45 Prelim Specifications

Submitted by Janeen on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 2:21pm
Artist's rendering Summit 45

Summit Yachts announces it's latest model: the Summit 45 designed by Mark Mills. The deck and interior are designed for maximum efficiency, the fixed sprit and runnerless carbon rig is relatively easy to handle by an amateur crew, but will reward talented crews with incredible performance! More to come in the upcoming weeks. Stay tuned!

September 2010 Regattas

Submitted by Janeen on Wed, 09/22/2010 - 4:07pm
Summit 40 American Girl

Summit Yachts continues its winning record!

Congratulations to Dan Galyon and the crew of the Summit 40 “American Girl” for their stunning victory in IRC 2, at the Long Island Sound IRC Championship this past weekend. Dan’s team scored a 1-1-2-3-3. In IRC 3, Dominic Porco’s Summit 35 “Alliance” sailed to a convincing third place finish.

On the west coast, Dan Woolery and his Summit 40 "Soozal" earned a first place overall win in the IRC West Coast Championship at the 2010 San Francisco Big Boat Series!

New Summit 40 Project Overview

Submitted by Janeen on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 11:45am
New Summit 40

The New Summit 40 Project Overview is outlined in the attached document. It contains artist's renderings of the revisions, new specifications as well as interior and exterior deck outlines. Please click on the link for the full story.

Karasu Wins the 60th Oshima Race

Submitted by Janeen on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 10:29am
Karasu Summit 40

Summit 40, Karasu, won the 60th Oshima Race. The race is from Misaki - Oshima - Misaki. There was mild wind at the beginning of the race then very light wind until the island, but after rounding the island, follow-on boats tried to catch up to Karasu but she managed to finish the race at the 3rd position and won the race with the corrected time.

Karasu Summit 40 Wins the Saga miwan Big Boat Regatta

Submitted by Janeen on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 10:20am
Karasu Summit 40

Karasu, the Japanese Summit 40, won the Saga miwan Big Boat Regatta in a testing mixture of conditions. She won the 3 day event with three firsts from 5 inshore races and a coastal race. Continuing her ongoing success in IRC racing in Japan against strong opposition reflects the strength of the Summit 40 and the growth of IRC racing worldwide.

Soozal Wins 2010 Stone Cup

Submitted by Janeen on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 10:10am
Soozal Summit 40

Dan Woolery’s Summit 40 Soozal continued her run of strong IRC performances by winning the 2010 Stone Cup counting straight firsts. Run by the St Francis Yacht Club, the event provided classic cool but breezy San Francisco city front conditions.

Summit 40 Enhancements

Submitted by Janeen on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 9:30am

Summit Yachts has announced the start of construction of the first of the new Summit 40’s. This new model will be an evolutionary advancement over the highly successful King 40. With a new keel, and rudder design by Mark Mills, we will incorporate lessons learned from over 100 successful races worldwide.

Mark Mills wins award

Submitted by Janeen on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 3:00pm

Mark Mills was honored with the Irish Independent / Afloat.ie Sailor of the Year Award: "Globally successful yacht designer Mark Mills of County Wicklow is the Afloat.ie/Irish Independent 'Sailor of the Year 2009' after a year of exceptional achievements which built on his original accolade as Sailor of the Month a year ago."

Read more at http://www.afloat.ie/news/mark-mills-is-sailor-of-the-year/

Summit 35 Best IRC Racer 2010

Submitted by Janeen on Fri, 01/01/2010 - 7:10pm

Sailing World magazine awarded the Summit 35 the 2010 Boat of the Year for the best IRC racer.

Read more at http://www.sailingworld.com/sailboats/boat-reviews/summit-35-a-mini-revi...

Yachting World article on the MD35

Submitted by RBH on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 9:06pm