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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!

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