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DAY2 – Voy­age: Mar­seille to Mallorca

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 cam­paigns? 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.

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