Left the Port of Santa Cruz, light 10-knot wind blowing, but heavier winds are expected. Slow start to our voyage, but no one is complaining. The autopilot keeps a straight course, so no hand steering required. We’re trying to save some energy for the testing miles ahead. Heavy rain all day. Squalls then light winds. Rocky night expected. Received a VHF call from another yacht last night relaying a message about a yacht in distress. Promised we would keep our eyes open. No sign of distressed yacht though. St. Martin: first a shimmery glow, now clearly visible. Almost there! After so long at sea it feels great to make landfall! With a good breeze blowing we can count on making steady progress. Looks like we will be arriving during the day. St. Martin here we come.
We’re well underway. Tranquil morning after a rocky night. Clear skies, light winds, easy sailing. At first we were relieved to see the wind ease and the rain
stop. Easy sailing is getting on our nerves now. We want to get to Mallorca while we’re still young! We might have to resort to motoring. Arrived at Real Club Nautico de Palma, pleasant temperature, light winds, calm sea. The warm climate and excellent water sports facilities here attract many top yachtsmen. They prefer Palma de Mallorca as their training site. We plan on taking some time to relax, too. Little sailing today! Winds are very low. We decide to go out and do some swimming around the boat. With 31ºC and a bright blue sea, that’s no real punishment.
Have you ever made an experience like this? We are interested in your sailing adventures. We invite you to comment on this post!
The new Gaastra Spring/Summer Collection is now available online! You might wonder where we get our inspiration from. Follow us during the next days on our sailing tour through the transatlantic ocean. The logbook entries show our experiences. Every day serves as inpiration for a specific part of the collection. In that case let’s start with DAY1 – Voyage: Cape Verde to Barbados
Sailing fast, large sea, hand steering. Flying fish everywhere. Once out of the shadow of the island, the wind gets up. Large seas combined with an awkward cross-swell prevent the autopilot from keeping a steady course. We have to steer by hand. Passed the half-way mark! Thunderstorm with tremendous lightning, 20 knots of wind and 6 foot waves. Lightning crashing into the sea on both sides. With our mastbeing the only potential lightning conductor for about a hundred miles in any direction, we have to be careful. Progress about 100 miles. Quiet night followed by cloudless sky. Still 233 nautical miles to go. Getting closer to Barbados, we can almost smell the rum punches. It’s getting hotter and hotter on deck. We expected to see more boats but we still have the sea completely to ourselves. Tacked into deep water harbour and tied up ready to check in. We’re finally there!
We are interested in your opinion. How do you like the styles?What do you think about the inspiration?
Have you ever thought about all the beautiful models we use for our campaings? We have a lot! We are happy to present one of our beautiful Gaastra models to you:
Sylvia Geersen, the hot Dutch leggie is one of the top models of the world. She rose to fame after becoming the second winner of Hollands ‘Next Top Model’ contest in 2006. We are looking forward to presenting all the new campaing pictures to you.
We are looking forward to seeing the sun again, feeling a nice warm spring breeze on our skin. We can’t wait to change our clothes against airy and coulourful fabrics. For your imagination we do have some pictures from behind the scenes – Spring/Summer 2010! Enjoy! By the way: We are going to get the first clothes on Thursday!
Hi Guys, We are happy to present the 5 top rated pictures to all of you: Frederic has made the Number 1 winning picture (1414 votes).
Congratulations to the other photographers: Pamela, Inga, Dennis and Virgile. For taking part in our voting Steffen has become a winner as well.
Thanks to all for participation. We are pretty interested in your ideas for other subjects, battles and so on. Tell us what you like by writing a comment on this post.
Thanks to all Gaastra friends! We are really happy about all the fantastic pictures you sent to us. We had never thought about such a response! We had a good time taking a look at your lovely children and all your great sailing moments. It was really hard to choose the best 12.
Now it is up to you – You can rate each pictures with 1 to 5 stars. The best 6 will win one of our unique „Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez Polos“.
Have fun and enjoy our battle! Have a good start in 2010! We get back to you on the 6th of January!
Day 3 – Voyage: Tenerife to St. Martin
Thank you all for a really good year! We hope you have enjoyed our clothes and the feeling around the brand.
