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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

The King 40 wins Boat of the Year

Submitted by RBH on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 12:00am

"Topping the list of winners for Sailing World's 25th annual Boat of the Year contest was the King 40 by Summit Yachts.

The King 40, the overall winner, and four other boats won awards from an independent panel of experts who inspected and tested 17 nominated entries during the U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis earlier this year. Selections were based on extensive inspections and sea trials of all the boats. All five 2009 Boat of the Year winners will be featured in the January/February issue of Sailing World."

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