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Nau­ti­cal Gaas­tra Fash­ion Spring Sum­mer 2012, Portofino Clas­sic Collection

The sun laughs, pas­tel colours paint the pic­turesque rows of houses along the Ital­ian Riv­iera and the Dolce Vita Lifestyle enchants both by sea and by land: Gaas­tra glares with its Spring Sum­mer Fash­ion 2012 inspired by this famous Ital­ian coast­line and enriches life eas­ily with the ‘Portofino Clas­sic Col­lec­tion’. This sea­son, pas­tel colours obvi­ously set the tone: Smooth mint­green, fruity apri­cot, roman­tic rose and tempt­ing vanilla belong dur­ing the upcom­ing sum­mer period to the fash­ion trend colours 2012. Gaas­tra shirts and Gaas­tra blouses addi­tion­ally refresh nau­ti­cally striped and with mar­itime multi-coloured checks and mille­fleur prints.

This ele­gant Gaas­tra Bre­ton line uni­fies anew a rich mix of mate­ri­als and nau­ti­cal fash­ion details as pat­terns, appliqués and emblems: The Gaas­tra Blouse Fal­ster of the Gaas­tra Women Portofino Clas­sic Col­lec­tion for exam­ple, con­sists of soft cot­ton with stretch for com­fort­able wear­ing and a good fit. It fash­ion­ably shines with a spe­cial embroi­dery on chest and a spe­cial designed under col­lar. Com­bined with high-value Gaas­tra Shorts Fender in beige, white or navy: Wow, true Dolce Vita! Gaas­tra Men per­suade for exam­ple in the Gaas­tra Shirt Ven­tura with com­fort­able wear­ing feel­ing, button-down col­lar and con­trast coloured under col­lar from the Gaas­tra Men Portofino Clas­sic Col­lec­tion or spor­tively in the pastel-coloured Gaas­tra Poloshirts Sky­sail in Vanilla or Sand.

More Gaas­tra Fash­ion Trends 2012? This way!

Dubai Inter­na­tional Boat Show 2012, Gaas­tra Blog con­grat­u­lates to its 20th Anniversary!

Twenty years of glam­our, gloss and inter­na­tional boat celebrity: The Dubai Inter­na­tional Boat Show cel­e­brates in 2012 its 20^th anniver­sary – namely run­ning from 13–17 march at the Dubai Inter­na­tional Marine Club Mina Seyahi. Gaas­tra Blog says ‘Con­grat­u­la­tions!’. The lead­ing boat show and marine event in the Mid­dle East will roll out the red car­pets this year unpreceden-tedly for 750 inter­na­tional and regional exhibitors from over­all forty nations. Amongst them, more than one hun­dred new exhibitors will show­case their lat­est inno­va­tions at the Dubai Exhi­bi­tion Cen­tre in march 2012: Afresh on spot of the lux­ury boat show will be from Ger­many Fehrmann Yacht Engi­neer­ing, Old­en­burger Yacht Inte­rior and Pien­ing Pro­peller, from the Nether­lands the Dutch Truster Group and Mavé boat equip­ment as well as Milano Tele­port and RE-Boat Srl from Italy and many many more.

Open to trade vis­i­tors and gen­eral pub­lic, you can expe­ri­ence at the Dubai Inter­na­tional Boat Show 2012 exclu­sive Supery­achts of 25 metres and above on the ‘Supery­acht Boule­vard’ as well as in the ‘Supery­acht Pavil­lon’ – true cen­tre­pieces of the marine event with lead­ing yacht builders and ship­yards pre­sent­ing their prod­ucts and ser­vices. Due to the strong demand this year, the boat show’s exter­nal area has expanded in addi­tion to 30 % for small and medium lux­ury, leisure, power– and sail­ing boats. Wit­ness the world of glam­our on water at the lux­ury and bur­geon­ing ambi­ence to the 20th anniver­sary: Dubai Inter­na­tional Boat Show Tick­ets 2012 are com­fort­ably avail­able online. You are still look­ing for the per­fect match­ing nau­ti­cal fash­ion? In the offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop you will strike it rich with the largest assort­ment of high-value, mar­itime Gaas­tra Sports­wear Fash­ion and Gaas­tra Shoes includ­ing world­wide and fast deliv­ery service!

The count­down for the Caribbean sail­ing regatta Les Voiles de Saint Barth 2012 has started: To its third edi­tion run­ning from 2nd to 7th of april, Gaas­tra is anew the offi­cial part­ner of the exclu­sive regatta in the French Antilles sail­ing– and hol­i­day par­adise St. Barth, which became a shoot­ing star within the inter­na­tional sail­ing com­mu­nity in a short time. Fol­low­ing on from the suc­cess of the pre­vi­ous two edi­tions, this year even more sail­ing crews shall enjoy the extra­or­di­nary Saint Barth sail­ing con­di­tions. In the Maxi Class, breath­tak­ing boats as Pete Harrison’s Sojana, Baltic Nilaya, Swan High­land Breeze, F-class Fire­fly and Reichel/Pugh Ram­bler Yacht will chal­lenge this sea­son. Bouwe Bekking, last year on board of the High­land Breeze Yacht, will be the tac­ti­cian on the ‘Nilaya’ this april at Les Voiles de St. Barth 2012 – a rel­a­tively new boat, that won at the Super Yacht Cup Palma and at Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup Sar­dinia in its first year in the Super Maxi Divi­sion. Dip into the magic world of Saint Barth and get inspired: Dis­cover your Gaas­tra Fash­ion favourites from the lat­est exclu­sive Gaas­tra Les Voiles de Saint Barth 2012 Sports­wear Col­lec­tion com­fort­ably avail­able in the Gaas­tra Shop with world­wide and fast deliv­ery service!

HISWA Rai Ams­ter­dam Boat Show Map 2012, Gaas­tra Blog recommendation

The biggest boat show 2012 of the Benelux coun­tries sets course for its 57^th edi­tion: This year, the HISWA Ams­ter­dam Boat Show 2012 at the RAI Ams­ter­dam Exhi­bi­tion Cen­tre will take place from march 6–11 and will present on the 47.000 qm2 large exhi­bi­tion deck in a com­pletely new boat show lay­out. For the first time, you can test sail­ing boats at the RAI har­bour and ships will be show­cased in the out­door area, the afresh inte­grated ‘Mini Hiswa’ with fifty dif­fer­ent his­toric model ships will make hearts of clas­sic boat fans leap for joy and an own trade fair div­ing pavil­lon this year invites dip­ping in the­o­ret­i­cally and also prac­ti­cally in a div­ing basin. Inter­na­tional exhibitors will show­case about 500 cruis­ers, sail­ing yachts, motor­boats, RIB boats, power­boats, cata­ma­rans and sloop sail­ing boots – all with a min­i­mum lenght of 7 metres – on board of the HISWA Rai Ams­ter­dam Boat Show 2012 in alto­gether 7 exhi­bi­tion halls.

1.5 mil­lion boaters and more than 500.000 water­crafts you’ll find in the Nether­lands: The HISWA Ams­ter­dam Boat Show rep­re­sents the most impor­tant boat trade fair for the Nether­lands and is an inter­na­tional ‘place to be’ for the water sports busi­ness. Numer­ous Dutch boat builders of dis­tinc­tion as Da Vinci Yachts and De Vaart Yacht­ing will show­case their inno­va­tions. Straight to the open­ing of the Ams­ter­dam Boat Show 2012 on the 6^th of march, it is going to be excit­ing: Then the win­ners of the ‘HISWA Sail­ing Boat of the year 2012′ and the ‘HISWA motor boat of the year 2012′ will be announced. Nom­i­nated for the sail­ing boat cat­e­gorie are ‘Bestewind 50′, ‘X-Yachts XP-44′ and ‘Beneteau Sense 43′ and for the motor boat one ‘Bruijs Coaster’, ‘Wajer Osprey 34′ and ‘Beneteau Swift Trawler 44′. Hiswa Ams­ter­dam open hours will be daily from 10 am to 6 pm: HISWA Ams­ter­dam Tick­ets 2012 you can order reduced in advance for 15 € (instead of 17,50 €) and the recent Gaas­tra Sports­wear Sail­ing Fash­ion 2012 com­fort­ably in the Gaas­tra Online Shop!

St. Maarten Heineken Regatta 2012, Sail­ing Team ATT-EN-SION spon­sored by the offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop

The St. Maarten Heineken Regatta 2012 in the Caribbean hol­i­day– and sail­ing para-dise St. Maarten sets course this sea­son from 1^st to 4^th of march: To its 32. edi­tion the biggest sail­ing regatta of the Caribbean, orga­nized by the Sint Maarten Yacht Club, unites anew inter­na­tional sail­ing sports with much enter­tain­ment onshore under the motto ‘Seri­ous Fun’. The offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop is spon­sor­ing the Dutch sail­ing team „ATT-EN-SION“ from Wer­mond this year, the home­town of the lake coun­try and pop­u­lar sail­ing area ‘Kager­plassen’ near the Dutch town Lei­den. On the newest Beneteau Moor­ings 50.5 Monohull-Yacht, the sail­ing team goes on board with Jeroen Man­tel as cap­tain, with Ger­ton Lusink, Daniel Tuit, Niek Koop­mans, Jan-Willem Ver­sluijs, Jan-Willem Velzel and Jeroen van Stijn equipped with nau­ti­cal Caribbean Gaas­tra Sports­wear like the brand-new Antigua Sports­wear 2012 and the exclu­sive Les Voiles de Saint Barth 2012 Sports­wear from the Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop!

The St. Maarten Heineken Regatta made its debut in 1980 with twelve par­tic­i­pants and cli­maxed 2008 with 289 boats. This year anew, more than 200 are expected, with about 2500 sailors from more than 25 coun­tries. Amongst them, more than one hun­dred will match with St. Maarten rental boats in the Bare­boat fleet on spot. But it’s not only the unique spirit of the Caribbean regatta attract­ing thou­sands on the Nether­lands Antilles Island. After the chal­leng­ing races, fun is fol­low­ing! Socia­ble and pas­sion­ate par­ties com­bined with local and inter­na­tional music acts will refresh on four evenings in a row. The Gaas­tra Shop with the biggest assort­ment of Gaas­tra Sail­ing Fash­ion and tech­ni­cal Gaas­tra Pro Sail­ing Gear wishes fresh days on deck and hot nights on shore!

Sail­ing Regat­tas Live on Sail TV, Gaas­tra Blog rec­om­men­da­tion © Gaas­tra Inter­na­tional Sportswear

At home, at all lat­i­tudes and lon­gi­tudes: Sail TV, the provider to stream Live sail­ing events, broad­casts and reports com­pre­hen­sively since 2006 about numer­ous inter­na­tional sail­ing regat­tas as at present on the Volvo Ocean Race 2011/12. After the last chal­leng­ing leg from Abu Dhabi to Sanya with Team Tele­fónica win­ning, on sun­day feb­ru­ary 19th will start the fourth one lead­ing from Sanya to Auck­land with alto­gether 5220 nau­ti­cal miles. 

Fol­low the Volvo Ocean Race stream via Sail TV, the Sanya In-Port Race on feb­ru­ary 18th will be streamed as well. Whether America’s Cup, ISAF Sail­ing World Cup, Audi Med­Cup, Louis Vuit­ton Tro­phy, World Match Race Tour or Kiel Week: The sail­ing regat­tas live stream­ing provider Sail TV fea­tures every­thing quick­ing the nau­ti­cal pulse. Going from inter­views, cov­er­ages, sail­ing sport news as well as spe­cial fea­tures as the lat­est one on the 25th jubilee of the mov­ing America’s Cup his­tory 1987 with Den­nis Con­ner, who won the Cup back to the United States. The newest, nau­ti­cal Gaas­tra Sports­wear Fash­ion and tech­ni­cal Gaas­tra Pro Sail­ing Gear you’ll find com­fort­ably in the Gaas­tra Shop!

TeNo Design Jew­elry, ‘heart’ pen­dants, new Col­lec­tion 2012

On Valentine’s Day, hearts are beat­ing faster world­wide: All the more, if you can rejoice over spe­cial jew­elry by TeNo Design. That’s why we give present to you in your Gaas­tra Blog with a lovely Valentine’s Day raf­fle: Win one of four pre­cious TeNo heart stain­less steel pen­dants from the brand-new col­lec­tion with a total value of 250 € ! Each hand­crafted, with finely satinised sur­face and pol­ished side, we raf­fle two TeNo heart pen­dants with a red cot­ton cord and two in black addi­tion­ally equipped with a bril­liant! TeNo Jewel-ry, Watches and Acces­sories are appre­ci­ated world­wide for high qual­ity, noble and time­less design – every sin­gle piece 100 % made in Ger­many in the high-tech man­u­fac­tury based in Ger­man Pforzheim. Founded in 1999, TeNo Design is at present already rep­re­sented in 22 coun­tries on 5 con­ti­nents – at selected jewel-lery part­ners, at TeNo Cor­ners and TeNo Stores as in Cologne, New York, Las Vegas, Dubai oder Shang­hai. As of late, TeNo Design Jew­elry & watches are avail­able as well on all AIDA Cruise liners!

And that’ how it works: Just send an e-mail to denis@gaastraproshop.com with a short love let­ter about Gaas­tra  You can par­tic­i­pate until the 22^nd of feb­ru­ary 2012 and with a bit of luck you can com­bine your Gaas­tra Fash­ion – only today 5 € less with the Gaas­tra Voucher Code ‘Valen­tine’ and for our French cus­tomers ‘Saint­Valentin’ (not to com­bine with other Gaas­tra vouch­ers, min­i­mum order value 40 €) — shortly styl­is­ti­cally con­fi­dent with noble TeNo Jew­elry. Good Luck!

Boat­fit 2012, clas­sic boat show, Exhi­bi­tion Cen­tre Bremen

Yacht refit, boat restora­tion, GFK boat and yacht main­te­nance, preser­va­tion of wooden and steel boats: In 2012 anew, the Boat­fit boat show Bre­men is Germany’s biggest boat refit exhi­bi­tion and sole boat show for clas­sic boats. This year, the sev­enth edi­tion takes its course from 24–26 feb­ru­ary 2012 – on 10.000 qm2, with about 160 exhibitors and 11.000 expected vis­tors anew at the Bre­men Exhi­bi­tion Cen­tre. The Boat­fit 2012 will be the place to be for the clas­sic boat fans before season’s start.

The well-known Ger­man Clas­sic Yacht Club will anchor at the Boat­fit as well, with whom Gaas­tra has a close coop­er­a­tion for years. Three quar­ters of the Boat­fit clas­sic boat show vis­i­tors are boat own­ers them­selves and will find the­o­ret­i­cal and prac­ti­cal know-how at the clas­sic boat show. This will be imparted as well in more than 100 lec­tures: Going from ‘Wooden boat restora­tion: What can I do on my own?’, Boat Osmo­sis, refur­bish­ing and pre­cau­tion­ing’ to ’70 years folk­boat, 50 years Tadorna – time for a refit?’ with skip­per and author Bas­t­ian Hauck. Numer­ous experts and boat refit ser­vice com­pa­nies will give advise to clas­sic boat fans as well in the offered work­shops. Gaas­tra Blog rec­om­mends: Expe­ri­ence the mar­itime clas­sic boat show – best in nau­ti­cal sail­ing fash­ion by Gaas­tra. Ahoy!

Antigua Sports­wear Sail­ing Fash­ion 2012 by Gaas­tra, Copy­right Kurt Arrigo

Wel­come to the world of Antigua: 365 fine beaches, trop­i­cal cli­mate and dream­like sail­ing cond-itions…the hol­i­day– and sail­ing par­adise Antigua is world­wide val­ued for its extra­or­di­nary atmos­phere. The Caribbean island belongs to the north­ern part of the Lesser Antilles, which extend from the Vir­gin Islands to Dominica. On the strenght of the north­east trade winds, these lat­i­tudes of the Caribbean island chain are called Lee­ward Islands. 

Above all in april, sailors from all over the world set course for sunny Antigua: Since the six­ties, the famous Antigua Sail­ing Week is held, this year in 2012 run­ning from april 29 to mai 4, orga­nized by the Antigua Yacht Club and amongst oth­ers spon­sored by the Yacht­ing World Mag­a­zine, the ear­li­est sail­ing mag­a­zine of the world. The biggest Caribbean clas­sic yacht regatta, the Antigua Clas­sic Yacht Regatta, cel­e­brates 2012 its 25. edi­tion from april 19–24, with that said its sil­ver jubilee! Boat own­ers mainly dock in the his­toric Antigua Eng­lish Har­bour, Nelson´s Dock­yard in the south­ern part of the Antilles island, sig­ni­fy­ing Antigua’s yacht­ing– and sail­ing cen­tre – with numer­ous Antigua char­ters, offer­ing bare­boats, flotil­las or berths. This nat­ural har­bour was for­ti­fied by the British Royal Navy in the eigh­teenth cen­tury as an impor­tant strate­gic port – belong­ing to the most trop­i­cal storm proof har­bours of Cen­tral Amer­ica up to the present day. Start your per­sonal sail­ing adven­ture this sea­son in the brand-new Gaas­tra Antigua Sail­ing Fash­ion Sports­wear Col­lec­tion 2012 rang­ing from wind­proof Gaas­tra jack­ets, Gaas­tra shirts, blouses, polo shirts and more in the nau­ti­cal colours blue, white and: An intense season’s trend colour red!