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Barcelona Boat Show 2011, Salon Nau­tico Inter­na­cional cel­e­brates its 50th jubilee — Gaas­tra says ‘Salud’!

From 5–13 Novem­ber 2011, the Barcelona Inter­na­tional Boat Show cel­e­brates its 50th edi­tion — as the biggest boat show in Spain and one of the most impor­tant boat exhi­bi­tions in Europe, the pres­ti­gious boat trade show will be the bench­mark for the nau­ti­cal sec­tor anew. At the Gran Via and the On-Water Port Vell exhi­bi­tion cen­tres of the Fira Barcelona, the jubilee edi­tion of the Salon Nau­tico 2011 will shine more brightly than ever fea­tur­ing the full range of new prod­ucts and inno­va­tions of the vary­ing world of water sports in five theme areas: Inno­va­tion zone, Fun Beach, Tra­di­tional Sail­ing, Fisherman’s zone and Marine Zone. Open for pro­fes­sion­als and the gene-ral pub­lic, the Barcelona Boat Show 2011 will set sails afresh for its main objec­tives it had when the first edi­tion took place in 1963: Pro­mot­ing the nau­ti­cal indus­try and its eco­nomic impor­tance as well as encour­ag­ing inter­est in nau­ti­cal sports for the public.

Going from motor­boats and sail­boats, ‘Menorquina’ boats, fishing/recreational boats, elec­tronic, jet-skis and wave-runners, nau­ti­cal ser­vices, tourism and nau­ti­cal cloth­ing: You can dis­cover the huge deck with inno­va­tions and water sport trends at the Barcelona Jubilee Boat Show 2011 Mon­day – Thurs­day open from 10.00 – 19.00 and on Fri­day, Sat­ur­day and Sun­day from 10.00 – 20.00. Don’t miss the 50th Anniver­sary Boat Show Gala as well, when five decades of span­ish boat show his­tory will be cel­e­brated with many promi­nent guests and exhibitors. Gaasta Blog says ‘Salud’!

Folk­boat at a sail­ing regatta at Laboe, wiki­me­dia, author Voll­w­ert­BIT, Cre­ative Com­mons License

Swe­den, late sum­mer 1941: The Royal Swedish Sail­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (Skan­di­navisk Sei­jler­for­bund) pub­lishes the final draw­ings and build­ing reg­u­la­tions for the Nordic Folk­boat. In total, 59 design drafts have been sub­mit­ted – a num­ber non-expected to attend – the jury made their choice on. The basic idea for a ‘scan­di­na­vian unity-class’ moved into gear already 1939 through C.G. Fast, mem­ber of the Gothen­burg Sail­ing Asso­ci­a­tion on the Scan­di­na­vian sailors day. Chal­lenges which have been made on the Nordic Folk­boat, were a rel­a­tively advan­ta­geously priced pro­duc­tion, made of local lum­bers, and afford­ing a bed­room and liv­ing space for three to four people.

Today the all­rounder Folk­boat has an inter­na­tional fan­base from Europe to the USA with more than 4000 by now built boats. The Ger­man Folk­boat Asso­ci­a­tion is firmly estab­lished in the Nordic Folk­boat cul­ture and counts a proud num­ber of about 800 mem­bers. For all, who would like to respire this his­toric airstream, we rec­om­mend you the oncom­ing hanse­boot boat­show 2011 at Ham­burg. With a spe­cial exhi­bi­tion area on 200 square metres in fair hall B4 (open­ing 29 octo­ber, 16 pm) with boats of 7 decades and the pre­miere of a spe­cial edi­tion, the 70th Folk­boat birth­day will be cel­e­brated on the 52. boat­show edi­tion of the hanse­boot 2011. Fit­ting, nautical-solid ele­gance for Men and Women on– and off­shore offers you the lat­est Gaas­tra Basic Col­lec­tion with all­rounders per­fect to com­bi­nate like Gaas­tra shirts, blouses polos, pullovers and win­ter­jack­ets. Ahoy and Happy Birthday!

Gaas­tra rec­om­mends hanse­boot 2011, inter­na­tional boat show ger­many hamburg

On sched­ule to the end of sea­son, the biggest and most vary­ing water sports– and boat-exhibition in north­ern Ger­man region opens its doors: On deck of the inter­na­tional boat show hanse­boot 2011 with 75,000 square metres and the pop­u­lar in-water har­bour, about 700 exhibitors from about 30 nations will present their lat­est trends and inno­va­tions of the world of sail­ing, motor­boats and trend sports. Dis­cover the most recent yachts, cata­ma­rans, tri­marans, cruiser-racers, quicken your pulse in the exhi­bi­tion hall B6 and in the in-water har­bour at impos­ing lux­ury motor­boats, as well as smaller and mid-level ones on 16,500 square metres in the motorboat-exhibition area, or get advised by experts about best sail­ing routes and areas and in plan­ning your next trip.

A Ger­many Pre­miere will be at this year’s Ger­man boat exhi­bi­tion hanse­boot inter­na­tional Boat Show Ham­burg 2011 the moto­ry­acht ‘Sun­seeker Man­hat­tan 63′ with a lenght of 21,07 metres. With 1200 horse­power and exquis­ite inte­rior, the in british Poole con­structed dreamy­acht will be the most pre­cious on the Ger­man boat show hanse­boot 2011. Gaas­tra Blog rec­om­mends: Spot the lat­est future water sports– and sail­ing trends and the vary­ing pre­mieres in sail­ing, motor­boats, trend­sports as well as char­ter and travel! The inter­na­tional boat show ham­burg 2011 runs from 29 octo­ber to 6 novem­ber, and will will be open from 10 am – 6 am and on Wednes­day from 10 am – 8 am. We rec­om­mend sav­ing your tick­ets online and dress­ing the refresh­ing nau­ti­cal way in the Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop with world­wide deliv­ery!

Audi TP52 World Cham­pi­onship © Ste­fano Gattini_Studio Bor­lenghi­Audi MedCup

Quan­tum Rac­ing, defender of last years Audi TP52 World Champion-ship title hold in Valen­cia, home­like Audi Azzura Sail­ing Team dressed in Gaas­tra Pro Sail­ing Gear and many more inter­na­tional high-level sail­ing teams will chal­lenge this week run­ning from octo­ber 4–8 on the waters of Ital­ian Porto Cervo. It was in 2007, when the last TP52 world regatta edi­tion was held in this pop­u­lar sail­ing riv­iera, won by Sweden’s Tor­b­jorn Tornqvist’s Artemis. This is what Ed Reynolds (USA), project man­ager of Quan­tum Rac­ing says: ‘It is going to be a unique worlds since really any boat could get on a hot streak and go out and win. In this one regatta for­mat it will be the most com­pet­i­tive worlds we have known to this point. In the past there have been one or two boats to focus on, this time it could be any one.’

Per­haps it will be the Audi Azzura Sail­ing Team with Alberto Roem­mers’ crew skip­pered by Guillermo Parada (ARG), sail­ing on home waves under the flag of the host Yacht Club Costa Sme-ralda? Or Britain’s Glad­i­a­tor by Tony Lan­g­ley (GBR) return­ing this year for chal­leng­ing for the world title again with tac­ti­cian Chris Lar­son? Or Spain’s ESP 7552 skip­pered and steered by Gon­zalo Araujo with his team equipped as well like Audi Azzura in Gaas­tra Pro Pro­fes­sional Sail­ing Gear? As Reynold said, every­thing is pos­si­ble this year! The Audi TP52 World Cham­pi­onship 2011 will com­prise five days of windward-leeward rac­ing includ­ing one coastal race on thurs­day. Gaas­tra Blog and Gaas­tra Pro Sail­ing Gear wish all teams fan­tas­tic and chal­leng­ing days!

Audi Melges 20 Sail­ing Series Scarlino©2011 Luca Butto for Carlo Bor­lenghi B-Plan

Venice will get in touch these days with pure joy of sail­ing: Going from the 29th of sep­tem­ber to octo­ber 5th 2011, the Audi Melges 20 class Euro­pean Cham­pi­onship will be held in Venice waters this week. After last years sail­ing series in Lerici, Scar­lino and Riva dela Garda, the Audi Melges 20 Cham­pi­onship 2011 are hosted by the Com­pag­nia della Vela di Venezia this time, wel­com­ing the Melges Europe teams at this fast Venice sail­ing venue. Renowned for its cutting-edge mate­ri­als and con­cepts, the Audi Melges 20 class will prove their high stan­dards in easy-to-sail sport­boats with a sim­plic­ity exceed­ing expec­ta­tions by new. With a lenght of 6.096 m and weight of 520 kg, the Melges 20 sail­boat class is the eas­i­est sport­boat to sail on the mar­ket today and has become the bench­mark for small keel­boats nowa­days. Gaas­tra Sports­wear wishes all par­tic­i­pants chal­leng­ing days!

Les Voiles de St. Tropez 2011, Gaas­tra rec­om­mends the Cote d’Azur sail­ing event

Nine days, more than 300 mod­ern and tra­di­tional yachts, as well as breath­tak­ing Wally-Yachts and an unique mediter­ranean atmos­phere: Les Voiles de Saint Tropez 2011 will meet inter­na­tional pro­fes­sional sail­ing teams — with about three thou­sand crew mem­bers — and sail­ing enthu­si­asts this week at the promi­nent French Cote d’Azur.

Organ­ised by the Soci­ete Nau­tique de Saint-Tropez, the already 12th edi­tion of the glitzy regatta, marks this year as well the final of the mediter­ranean regatta sea­son. Exclu­sive yachts, sail­ing beau­ties and pure nau­ti­cal pas­sion with chal­leng­ing races, that will be held from mon­day on, sig­nalises Les Voiles de St. Tropez as a must go in the sail­ing cal­en­dar 2011. And if you’re still keep watch­ing for the match­ing mar­itime St. Tropez fash­ion out­fit for this top-class sail­ing event, we rec­om­mend you our rich assort­ment of promi­nent Gaas­tra Sail­ing Fash­ion for Women and Men and Gaas­tra Pro Sail­ing Gear – nat­u­rally in your Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop!  

Franco Pace Sail­ing Cal­en­dar 2012, 70 x 57 cm, Edi­tion Maritim

Nioulargue, Antigua Race Week, Cowes Clas­sic, off Porto Cervo, Saint-Tropez or Laboe: The inter­na­tional renowned sail­ing sport pho­tog­ra­pher Franco Pace feels at home on all oceans and works as a pro­fes­sional photo-grapher since more than twenty years. His unique pho­tog­ra­phy and his spe­cial sense for par­tic­u­lar per­spec­tives, have made him pop­u­lar within just some years.

How to draw atten­tion to yachts in dream, Franco Pace proves in his lat­est sail­ing cal­en­dar 2012 in the Delius Klas­ing pub­lished Edi­tion Mar­itim. The selec­tion of the pho­to­graphic mas­ter­works in the lux­u­ri­ously equipped large for­mat (70 x 57) has been selected by Franco Pace him­self and con­vinces with glossy pho­tog­ra­phy in an exclu­sive and pre­mium matt black design. ‘Why would you like to start with Franco Pace into 2012? - If you’d like to win this exclu­sive Franco Pace Sail­ing Cal­en­dar 2012 worth 48 € pub­lished at Delius Klas­ing – the spe­cial­ist for watersport-, motor­boat– and sail­ing lit­er­a­ture, as well as pub­lisher of Europes biggest sail­ing mag­a­zine ‘Yacht’ – then send an e-mail with your answer until Thurs­day, 29^th sep­tem­ber 2011 mid­night at the lat­est to denis@gaastraproshop.com or sim­ply leave a com­ment in this entry! The win­ner will be informed per­son­ally and announced next week in the com­men­tary box of this entry. Your Gaas­tra Shop Blog wishes Good Luck!

Gaas­tra rec­om­mends the Delta Lloyd Open Dutch Cham­pi­onships, www.gaastraproshop.com

Seven days left and one of the biggest Dutch sail­ing events will take place off the Inter­na­tional Sail­ing Cen­ter Medem­b­lik: The Delta Lloyd Open Dutch Champion-ships 2011 includ­ing the Olympic and Par­a­lympic Classes, will make Medem­b­lik Europes’ sail­ing spot next week­end this year as well!

Orga­nized by the ‘Ned­er­landse Water­sportver­bond (KNWV)’ and the orga­niz­ing author­ity ‘Royal Nether­lands Yacht­ing Union’ in con­junc­tion with the ‘RYC Hol­lan­dia’ and ‘Tre­f­punt Sports and Enter­tain­ment’, this main Dutch sail­ing event is open this year for the J22 and Dart 18 classes, the Laser Stan­dard Laser Radial (Men and Women), 470 (Men and Women), Finn, 49er, 29er XX, RS:X (Men and Women), Star, Sonar(open) and 2.4mR (open).

The weather fore­casts look good for upcom­ing Delta Lloyd Open Dutch Cham­pi­onships and first warn­ing sig­nals will be on fri­day, the 16th sep­tem­ber 2011 at 10 am. You can fol­low the lat­est news and sail­ing videos on the Topzeilen TV of the Water­sportver­bond and the lat­est Gaas­tra Pro Sail­ing Wear as well!

Ned­er­landse Bouwre­gatta spon­sored by Gaas­tra Sports­wear, www.gaastraproshop.com

The par­tic­u­larly aimed at helms­man in con­struc­tion sail­ing event ‘Ned­er­landse Bouwre­gatta’ at Dutch Enkhuizen at IJs­selmeer, expects this year as well more than 350 par­tic­i­pants and about 50 boats: The grow­ing annual IJs­selmeer sail­ing event takes place since 2007, tra­di­tion­ally always on the first fri­day of sep­tem­ber as well as this year and opens on the thurs­day before with the entry of the boats.

The cap­tains will be wel­comed at the marina Enkhuizen fol­lowed by the din­ner with the skip­pers and crew and a nau­ti­cal lec­ture in the evening. The Main Match Day of the Gaas­tra spon­sored Ned­er­landse Bouwre­gatta 2011 takes place then on fri­day, 2nd sep­tem­ber and the pro­ceeds will be donated this year as well for char­ity purposes.

Ned­er­landse Bouwre­gatta, spon­sored by Gaas­tra Sportswear

Ger­man Clas­sics Laboe 2011 with Gaas­tra as Spon­sor © Fre­un­deskreis Klas­sis­che Yachten (FKY)

Clas­si­cal, iconic, culi­nary: The tradition-rich Ger­man Clas­sics Regatta at Kiel-Laboe lived up to its name this year as well to its 23rd edi­tion! Thou­sands of vis­i­tors fol­lowed the invi­ta­tion of the Ger­man Clas­sic Yacht Club (Fre­un­deskreis Klas­sis­che Yachten) and mar­veled at the impres­sive rich­ness of the clas­si­cal yacht-culture the last four days. For the first time, three instead of two short races on last fri­day, pointed out the sportive char­ac­ter of the lat­est Ger­man Clas­sics Edi­tion 2011 more than ever and catered for an addi­tional stiff regatta-breeze at this spe­cial Baltic Sea Sail Event 2011 last weekend.

Another high­light was the award-show of the ‘Restora­tion Prize’, which took place under the motto ‘Sail­ing, lov­ing, pre­serv­ing’. The Ger­man Clas­sic Yacht Club engages in many project & pro­grammes like ‘Save the clas­sics!“, the ‘restau­ra­tion fund’ and in yacht restau­ra­tion work­shops for the preser­va­tion and care of clas­si­cal boats and cul­ture. Like­wise, this year’s Gaas­tra Ger­man Clas­sics Poloshirt Col­lec­tion 2011 ensured a fresh and fash­ion­able wind at the Clas­sic Sail Event in Kiel-Laboe: Gaas­tra pre­sented on the spot with its Lim­ited Sail­ing Fash­ion clas­si­cally in well-known high-quality and sur­pris­ingly with many spe­cial details. The Lim­ited Col­lec­tion of Ger­man Clas­sics Regatta Poloshirts 2011 for Women and Men exclu­sively cre­ated for this sail­ing event, can be still ordered at the moment in the Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop as long as stocks last. See you next year, ahoy!

Ger­man Clas­sics Segel­re­gatta Laboe, Gaas­tra Kollek­tion 2011 limitiert