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We are look­ing for­ward to the biggest sail­ing com­pe­ti­tion in Spain: the Copa del Rey. It’s held in the waters of the bay of Palma de Mal­lorca. With over 100 sail­ing yachts from 16 dif­fer­ent coun­tries in three dif­fer­ent fleets: TP52, IMS and Cruiser, it has become a top-level fix­ture on the inter­na­tional cal­en­dar. From the 1^st to the 8^th of August, a great many par­tic­i­pants will yet again com­pete for the first place — includ­ing the King and Prince of Spain, the King of Nor­way and a great many yachts­men from the America’s Cup com­pe­ti­tion, Volvo and Olympic com­pe­ti­tions such as Rus­sel Coutts, Ian Barker, Paul Cayard and Iker Mar­tinez.
The very first edi­tion was held in 1982 with only 50 boats tak­ing part. As you can see – over the years (29^th edi­tion this year) and with the sup­port of the royal fam­ily of Spain the Copa del Rey has become one of the major cruiser class regat­tas in the Mediter­ranean Sea.
The new Copa del Rey Polos for Men and Women are avail­able in our shop – enjoy!

Have you seen what hap­pened at the inter­na­tional well-known Ger­man Ten­nis Tour­na­ment, the Ger­man Open, in Hamburg/Rothenbaum. Michael Stich, the suc­cess­ful ger­man ten­nis player, was wear­ing a polo shirt of the St-Tropez col­lec­tion of Gaas­tra when he met Boris Becker at the Court. Stich, who is best remem­bered for win­ning at Wim­ble­don, owns a Char­ity trust which sup­ports chil­dren infected by HIV. He also brought the Drachen­boat Cup to Ger­many where the Gaas­tra team ended sec­ond out of six­teen teams. This was a bat­tle which took place in Ham­burg at the 11th of June 2010. We can be curi­ous who’ll be the next celeb wear­ing Gaas­tra. The pic­ture with Michael Stich wear­ing Gaas­tra you will find here.