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New month, new win­ning chance in your Gaas­tra Blog! Which prod­uct are we look­ing for this month? Set sail for your Gaas­tra Search & Win Tour and reveal us the name of the Gaas­tra prod­uct you see on this pic­ture. You’ve found it? Congratulation!

Then sim­ply send an e-mail with your cor­rect answer until thurs­day, 20 octo­ber 2011 to denis@gaastraproshop.com mid­night at the lat­est and yet you will par­tic­i­pate in this month Gaas­tra Blog com­pe­ti­tion with the chance in win­ning this spe­cial Gaas­tra item in your wished sized! At the end of the con­test we will inform the lucky win­ner via e-mail and announce her or him in the com­men­tary box of this blog entry. Good Luck!

Kids Fash­ion Fall Win­ter 2011-12 by Gaas­tra, www.gaastraproshop.com

Vivid colours with neon-accents, fash­ion­able stitch­ings, cud­dly fur col­lars and tested wind– and water­proof kids win­ter­jack­ets: Gaas­tra enchants even our small ones with big fash­ion with its lat­est Kidswear Trends for fall-winter 2011/12. This sea­son, the course leads us to glow­ing colours in shin­ing yel­low and orange, as well as royal blue and in spe­cial fir sprigs – in these trendy colours our sweet­hearts will be appar­ent for sure. At the same time, they enjoy per­fect pro­tec­tion at any wind– and weather con­di­tions, like in the 5000 mm watercolum-tested Kids Ski Jacket ‘Edi­tion 0035′ from the Lim­ited Edition. 

Glam­orous appears the Col­lec­tors Edi­tion with warm­ing fleeces, hood­ies, sweats and shapely kids win­ter­jack­ets like the Kids Win­ter­jacket ‘U’ Shot’ in vivid fir sprigs colour. Soon-to-be sea­men will really feel com­fort­able in the lat­est Gaas­tra Sail­lors Edi­tion for kids: Solid mate­ri­als pro­vide our kids fash­ion 2011/12 a nat­ural nau­ti­cal look and even prove ‘cap­tain qual­i­ties’ like in the very ele­gant Kids Win­ter Coat ‘Thole’ made from high-quality ital­ian wool and equipped with an high-fastening stand-up col­lar. Be ready before the win­ter is and shop com­fort­ably in your Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop with the largest assort­ment of fash­ion­able Gaas­tra Kidswear!

Search and Win!

As a Gaas­tra Blog reader, you have this month in sep­tem­ber anew the chance to take part in our monthly Search and Win Com­pe­ti­tion: Which prod­uct hides on this detail pic­ture? Find it out by eas­ily brows­ing the cur­rent assort­ment in your Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop! If you would like to win that spe­cial and fash­ion­able Gaas­tra item we are search­ing for, then sim­ply send an e-mail with the cor­rect name of it to denis@gaastraproshop.com till Wednes­day, the 21^st sep­tem­ber mid­night at the lat­est (incom­ing answers beyond this date can not par­tic­i­pate). The win­ner will be informed per­son­ally and then announced in the com­men­tary box of this blog entry next week. Have fun and Best of luck on your Search & Win course!

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!

Women Fash­ion Trends Fall Win­ter 2011/12, www.gaastraproshop.com

How will your fall-winter fash­ion style 2011/12 look like this sea­son? Get inspired of this selected Gaas­tra women out­fit from the lat­est col­lec­tion and mix up your indi­vid­ual style! The most recent Gaas­tra Lim­ited Edi­tion Col­lec­tion enchants with fresh nau­ti­cal looks and high-functional qual­i­ties like in the navy short coat Win­ter Jacket Edi­tion 0002 with real down fill­ing and a large, remov­able hood with fur col­lar — pro­tect­ing you fash­ion­ably with spe­cial neon-accents at all weather con­di­tions. Com­bined with the lat­est striped Gaas­tra women Blouse Edi­tion 0071 in pink made of high qual­ity cot­ton, you will be flat­tered in addi­tion close to your skin.

All women know: Catchy acces­soiries make a dif­fer­ence! That’s why we offer a vogu­ish and indi­vid­ual range of them like the cud­dly Trap­per Hat Edi­tion 0084 made of faux fur and fleece lin­ing ensur­ing a pleas­antly warm feel­ing and flex­i­ble wear­ing with adjustable cara­biner fas­ten­ers to close. A spe­cial detail: The Gaas­tra metal logo with rhine­stones on the back of the avi­a­tor hat will let you shine under­stat­edly this fall-winter sea­son 2011/12 for sure! Don’t miss our lat­est Gaas­tra women bags like the glossy nylon Gaas­tra Bag Edi­tion 0080 with pink spotty lin­ing inside. A per­fect match­ing all­rounder! Let the sea­son start — the eas­i­est way in your Offi­cial Gaas­tra Shop!

Final Gaas­tra Sale 2011 in the Gaas­tra Online Shop, www.Gaastraproshop.com

The Gaas­tra Sale 2011 runs at full speed and is in its final spurt: As a friend of fash­ion­able Gaas­tra Sports­wear and high-quality sail­ing fash­ion, you can still save your favourites of this years col­lec­tions to reduced prices. Per­haps you still miss the sophis­ti­cated Saint Barth Poloshirt from this years exclu­sive Col­lec­tion or a fash­ion­able shirt from the South Ocean Collection?

Also the fresh Transpa­cific Col­lec­tion rep­re­sents in the Gaas­tra Shop Sale and brings a wind of fresh fash­ion air in your wardrobe at the last minute: Going from women blouses or poloshirts and still at present pre­mium fleece­jack­ets and jack­ets from the sportive Transat­lantic Cross­ing Col­lec­tion 2011 and unique Gaas­tra Women Shoes for rock-bottom prices! Browse here directly in the Gaas­tra Wom­ens Sale, Gaas­tra Mens Sale or Gaas­tra Kids Sale and save now to the max­i­mum on last Late Summer-Sale-Days in your Offi­cial Gaas­tra Shop!

Gaas­tra Blog Con­test August 2011, Search & Win!

This month as well, our Gaas­tra Blog Con­test is on deck: Going from 15 to 21 of august 2011, we raf­fle amongst all par­tic­i­pants with the cor­rect answer in this period an elected, high-value item from the Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop! Cast Off and go on Gaas­tra ‘Search & Win’-Tour and tell us the name of the mapped prod­uct on the detail pic­ture to the left. You’ve dis­cov­ered? Con­grat­u­la­tion! Then sim­ply send an e-mail to denis@gaastraproshop.com with the cor­rect prod­uct name and yet you par­tic­i­pate auto­mat­i­cally in the Gaas­tra raf­fle in august 2011. The win­ner will be informed on the 22^nd of august via e-mail and after­wards announced in the com­ment field of this blog entry. Good Luck on your route in the Offi­cial Gaas­tra E-Store!  

Take an exclu­sive Pre­view on the Run­way Show of the Gaas­tra Col­lec­tion Fall / Win­ter with the oncom­ing fash­ion trends autumn win­ter 2011/12 for women, men and juniors. Get inspired and feel free to com­ment here in your Gaas­tra Blog if you like!

Sneek­week History

6 days, 76 years of tra­di­tion and around 1000 sail­ing yachts: The pop­u­lar Sneek­week will attend also this year anew pas­sion­ate sailors and thou­sands of vis­i­tors in the his­toric nau­ti­cal City Sneek in the Nether­lands at Sneek­er­meer to the two game series of the two Sneeker sail­ing clubs and the tra­di­tional naval pageant with hun­dreds of boats and a bril­liant dis­play of fire­works. The suc­cess of Gaas­tra began in Dutch Sneek, as the sail­ing enthu­si­ast Douwe Gaas­tra started his sail­ing com­pany (Dutch: ‘Zeil­mak­erij’) already in the year 1897. His ambi­tion was, to make sail­ing faster and more effi­cient with high-quality sails. Today, you find this nau­ti­cal exper­tise and pas­sion in the fash­ion­able Gaas­tra Sports­wear and Gaas­tra Pro Sail­ing Gear. Nat­u­rally, Gaas­tra has a strong bond to its home­land Sneek and spon­sors the 76th edi­tion of the Sneek­week 2011 organ­ised by the Konin­klijke Water­sportv­erenig­ing Sneek (KWS) this year again. Look out for the Lim­ited Sneek­week Polo Edi­tion 2011 com­ing presently in your Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop. Sneek­week 2011 and Gaas­tra wel­come you warmly to this spe­cial & enter­tain­ing sail­ing event in August!

Bread and But­ter Berlin, Gaas­tra Sportswear

What an amaz­ing pre­lude of the Bread & But­ter Berlin 2011 on the eve last night: Under Berlin’s night sky an open-air fes­ti­val with renowned live acts opened this years 10th jubilee of the 25th B&B edi­tion on the his­toric Air­port ground Berlin-Tempelhof. On three days till July 08, the world of fash­ion and Gaas­tra get together on the huge 70.000 qm area in the his­toric hangars of Tem­pel­hof Air­port. Rang­ing from Sport and Street, Street Fash­ion, Fash­ion Now to Style Soci­ety, Denim Base, L.O.C.K. and the Urban Supe­rior Men and Women Area where Gaas­tra is located as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of pre­mium Mar­itime Fash­ion and unique Gaas­tra Sports­wear Lifestyle. The doors for the Bread & But­ter 2011 open today and thou­sands of trade show vis­i­tors will eye up the top­i­cal Fash­ion Trends of about 600 exhibitors.

The glam­orous story of Bread and But­ter began in 2001, when the first one was held in Cologne. In 2003, the tradeshow for selected brands moved to cap­i­tal Berlin and expanded from July 2005 on par­al­lelly to Barcelona, where it was exclu­sively held between July 2007 and Jan­u­ary 2009. Since July 2009, Bread & But­ter returned to Berlin where it has found since then the per­fect set­ting for a tradeshow on a grand scale. Get inspired of fresh selected Gaas­tra Women Fash­ion Styles 2011 and Gaas­tra Men Fash­ion Styles 2011 in your Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop!