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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!

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!

Gaas­tra Children’s Cloth­ing 2012, Spring Summer

To the approach­ing sum­mer­time, our lit­tle ones are surely look­ing for­ward most: Then it’s time for going out! The new Spring Sum­mer Children’s Fash­ion 2012 Trends by Gaas­tra are ready yet and sur­vive every sum­mer adven­ture on– and off­shore. This sea­son anew, the Gaas­tra Sports Col­lec­tion sur­prises as smart mar­itime and casual func­tional children’s cloth­ing with many play­ful details like badges, appli­ca­tions, prints and the Gaas­tra fash­ion clas­sic: nau­ti­cal stripes. In many fresh and mul­ti­coloured com­bi­na­tions avail­able, they pro­vide the tough Gaas­tra kids sail­ing fash­ion with the unique nau­ti­cal casual look.

At the same time, our lit­tle sailors will tru­ely flour­ish: Since airy and sum­merly flow­ered pat­terns are on the kids trend fash­ion deck as well. Extra fash­ion­able kids cloth­ing, that’s what the Bre­ton Col­lec­tion stands for this spring sum­mer: It presents in a spe­cial mar­itime, Ital­ian Riv­iera Look this sea­son and will light up children’s eyes. At the same time, the slip-resistant Gaas­tra kids shoes will look after the per­fect grip on deck or while rol­lick­ing. Owing to max­i­mal non skid soles, you’ll always keep your lit­tle ones safe. Dis­cover the lat­est Children’s Fash­ion now in the Gaas­tra Kid’s Wear Mag­a­zine 2012!

Bel­gian Boat Show, Flan­ders Expo Ghent, Gaas­tra Blog recommendation

The Bel­gian Boat Show 2012 sets course to its 24^th edi­tion: Run­ning from 11–13 & from 17–19 feb­ru­ary, the Bel­gian Boat Trade Fair at Flan­ders Expo Gent will present a range of nov­el­ties and pre­mieres from the world of water sports. Yachts, boats, boat engines, rigid inflat­able boats (RIB’s) as the aqua­VITE 888 by Tech­no­hull, inno­v­a­tive elec­tric boats as by Green­line Hybrid (dec­o­rated with the Euro­pean Power­boat Title in 2010), water sports trends like wake­board­ing and stand-up pad­dling (SUP) as well as water sports tourism and the sunny host coun­try of the year, Cape Verde, will be rep­re­sented on the boat show deck. In addi­tion, the Dutch full-service yacht har­bour Atlantica will present its marina ser­vices and Bert Bossyns will fire the start­ing pis­tol for his new Transat 6,50 project in 2013 (solo transat­lantic yacht race). Due to its good trans­port con­nec­tions to France, the Nether­lands and Ger­many, the Bel­gian Boat Show is an inter­na­tional meet­ing spot for the water sport busi­ness. For all those, who are still cast­ing about the per­fectly match­ing, nau­ti­cal Gaas­tra Sail­ing Fash­ion, will nat­u­rally make many finds in the Gaas­tra Online Shop!

Sail­ing Team Azzurra, Gaas­tra offi­cial sup­plier © Gaas­tra Inter­na­tional Sports­wear b.v.

This year anew, Gaas­tra sup­ports the leg­endary Ital­ian Sail­ing Team Azzurra: Equipped with pro­fes­sional sail­ing cloth­ing from the tech­ni­cal Gaas­tra Pro Sail­ing Gear and nau­ti­cal Sports­wear, Team Azzurra of the Yacht Club Costa Smer­alda sets course for the new inter­na­tional sail­ing sea­son 2012 with a new Azzurra TP52 class boat. Con­struc­tions have started last novem­ber 2011 in the Span­ish King Marina yacht build­ing ship­yard headed by King Marine’s man­ager and engi­neer Pablo San­tar­siero. The first TP52 regatta con­sti­tutes the Palma Vela 2012 as a tune up event, fol­lowed by the Conde de Godó Barcelona in may, the Sar­dinia Cup at home­like Porto Cervo in june, the Copa del Rey Palma in july and the Valen­cia Cup in october.

So, the rich Azzurra his­tory will be upheld with a new liv­ery this regatta sea­son: Founded in the early 80s by H.H. The Aga Khan and Gianni Agnelli, the Azzurra Sail­ing Team com­peted firstly in 1983 at the Louis Vuit­ton Cup New­port, fol­lowed by the Sail­ing World Cham­pi­onships 1985. The Azzurra Team aroused new enthu­si­asm for sail­ing sports in Italy. In a word: What Fer­rari is to For­mula 1 fans, Azzurra is to Ital­ian yacht­ing enthu­si­asts! The greater was the excite­ment, when the sail­ing team cel­e­brated its come­back after sev­en­teen years at the Louis Vuit­ton Tro­phy 2009 and recently won over at the Audi Med­Cup Cir­cuit 2011. We are look­ing for­ward to a new sea­son with sail­ing team Azzurra in pro­fes­sional Gaas­tra Sail­ing Gear and sporty Gaas­tra Sail­ing Fash­ion – Good Speed!

Fash­ion Trends 2012, Gaas­tra Spring Sum­mer Collection

The lat­est Spring Sum­mer Fash­ion Trends 2012 freshly arrived! Gaastra’s mar­itime sail­ing fash­ion jour­ney leads from the Ital­ian Riv­iera to the Caribbean par­adises Antigua and Saint Thomas this sea­son. Dis­cover the sporty Dolce Vita Feel­ing of the newest ‘Ital­ian Rivera’ line in sweet pas­tel colours as pis­ta­chio, vanilla and straw­berry com­bined with nau­ti­cal stripes or mille­fleur prints and an exclu­sive navy colour com­bined with shades of white within the Capri Regatta line – the whole time­less clas­sic Gaas­tra Bre­ton Col­lec­tion shines with Ital­ian Riv­iera Style, sub­tle ele­gance and a rich mix of materials.

The Gaas­tra Sports Col­lec­tion set sails this sea­son anew as casual and func­tional sail­ing fash­ion on all lon­gi­tude and lat­i­tude lines: The lat­est Gaas­tra Antigua Col­lec­tion anchors as fash­ion­able sports­wear with inno­v­a­tive mate­ri­als tested in the Gaas­tra Pro Sail­ing Cloth­ing Gear and is full of pas­sion. For the tra­di­tional nau­ti­cal colours red, white and blue are dom­i­nated this sea­son by an intense red. This year as well, you don’t have to break sweat, for ultra light and breath­able Gaas­tra jack­ets will keep you dry, com­fort­able and good-looking. The first fash­ion trends 2012 from the Gaas­tra spring sum­mer col­lec­tion for Gaas­tra Women, Gaas­tra Men and Gaas­tra Kids are now on deck in the offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop. Where will your jour­ney lead you?

Stephan Luca and Bern­hard Bet­ter­mann in Gaas­tra Jack­ets, Tirol Cross Moun­tain 2011 © action­press / Franziska Krug

The Ger­man actors Stephan Luca and Bern­hard Bet­ter­mann really leaned in the curves in Gaas­tra jack­ets at the Tyrolean sled-dog race ‘Tirol Cross Moun­tain’ for a good cause: The char­ity event last decem­ber in the Aus­trian ski area Küh­tai with Gaas­tra as its part­ner and about 200 Ger­man TV and film celebri­ties, attracted much atten­tion in the media.

And attracted at the same time with many fash­ion high­lights from the cur­rent Gaas­tra fash­ion col­lec­tion in 2020 metres above sea level. Actor Bern­hard Bet­ter­mann wore the sporty and func­tional Gaas­tra Jacket Lubber’s Line – either in orange, navy or khaki avail­able in the Gaas­tra Shop. Dis­cover more sporty and fash­ion­able Gaas­tra cloth­ing with high-value win­ter jack­ets, ski­wear, fleeces, soft­shells and many more Gaas­tra Men High­lights also at the Gaas­tra Sale in the offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop at present!

Gaas­tra Online Shop: Trusted Shops Ger­man Rat­ing ‘Excellent’ !

Your sat­is­fac­tion is our moti­va­tion: That proves the Trusted Shops seal of approval as well! The offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop has the max­i­mal top grade with 5 stars in alto­gether 271 cus­tomer rat­ings (Effec­tive: 18.01.12). The indi­vid­ual cri­te­rias, which you as a cus­tomer can rate are Reli­a­bil­ity, Deliv­ery, Goods and Ser­vice – in all cri­te­rias, the Gaas­tra Shop anchored with ‘Excel­lent’ in the Ger­man cus­tomer rating!

Since 1999, Trusted Shops is the guar­an­tor for inde­pen­dent and ver­i­ta­ble rat­ings being engaged in nine Euro­pean coun­tries. The ‘Reli­a­bil­ity Index’ is rated every day anew by our Ger­man cus­tomers with Trusted Shops Buyer Pro­tec­tion – at present, your Gaas­tra Shop secures of 223 rated orders a max­i­mal reli­a­bil­ity index of 100 % ! In the future as well, you can rely on 100 % secure shop­ping world­wide, fast deliv­ery ser­vice and easy exchange: Nat­u­rally in your off­i­cal Gaas­tra Online Shop. Set sail for easy Gaas­tra shopping!