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Gaas­tra Men’s Boat Shoes Royal, Lim­ited Edi­tion Box 1–897, strictly limited

Hand-crafted made from nappa leather, world­wide lim­ited to a total num­ber of only 897 and pre­ciously packed in an indi­vid­u­ally num­bered mahogany wooden box includ­ing a high-quality shoe care set of the pres­ti­gious brand Col­lonil: The Lim­ited Edi­tion Box 1–897 with the Gaas­tra Men’s Boat Shoes Royal is an authen­tic hom­mage to the nau­ti­cal his­tory of Gaas­tra and a true collector’s item. Bun­dled in the spe­cial Gaas­tra Men’s boat shoe edi­tion Royal, you’ll find this rich nau­ti­cal expe­ri­ence while being fash­ion­ably on deck at every time. For the lux­u­ri­ous boat shoes com­bine ele­ments of tra­di­tional deck shoes with mod­ern looks and make every step a royal one! In addi­tion, the Lim­ited Edi­tion Box 1–897 con­tains the Col­lonil shoe– and leather care ‘1909’, a noble cedar shoe­tree and one small and one larger shoe brush made from real goat hair. For all friends of pre­mium shoes an authen­tic collector’s item and a spe­cial gift for men as well. The Lim­ited Edi­tion Box 1–897 is strictly lim­ited and as of now order­able to the price of 349 € in the offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop – only as long as stock lasts!

boot Dues­sel­dorf / Foto Rene Till­mann, Messe Düsseldorf

Under the motto ‘360° water­sports live’, the inter­na­tional ger­man boat show boot Düs­sel­dorf 2012 will roll out the red car­pets from the 21^st to 29^th jan­u­ary 2012 for the 43^th time: About 1.600 exhibitors from more than 50 coun­tries, amongst them also Gaas­tra, and about 250.000 expected vis­i­tors the boot Düs­sel­dorf 2012 will wel­come in alto­gether sev­en­teen exhi­bi­tion halls at the Rhine river. This year as well, the ger­man boat show weighs as the world­wide biggest inter­na­tional boat trade show, giv­ing proof at the same time of its con­sis­tent mod­ern­iza­tion includ­ing new exhi­bi­tion con­cepts and focus areas – result­ing in a new impor­tant atten­tive­ness for the water sports business.

Boats and yachts will be nat­u­rally still on the focus, 2012 with an impress­ing boat vari­ety of 1.700 types of all dimen­sions, spread­ing in eleven boat exhi­bi­tion halls. At the same time, the world of expe­ri­ences as ‘Beach World 2012′ with fun­sports like wake­board­ing, skim­board­ing and stand-up-paddle events have been extended, plus the water tourism and hol­i­day areas, as well as the div­ing world includ­ing the under­wa­ter pho­tog­ra­phy exhi­bi­tion „Under­wa­ter Pixel World 2012“ (eight times larger than last year!) and inno­v­a­tive boat equip­ment, tech­nique and inno­va­tions. Fur­ther high­lights of the ger­man boat show Düs­sel­dorf will be: In hall 4 big motor yacht brands like Bavaria, Bénéteau, Jean­neau, Galeon and Nim­bus, hall 5 with the power boat world, hall 15 with dutch ‘Hol­land Boats & Yachts’ steel yachts (the Nether­lands will count over­all to the largest exhibit­ing for­eign nations with 150 boat­yards and ser­vice com­pa­nies on the boat Düs­sel­dorf 2012), the world first of the Salano 35 from the yacht man­u­fac­ture AD-boats in hall 16, the ‘Euro­pean Yacht of the Year 2011/12′ Award and nat­u­rally Gaas­tra. Whether anglers, surfer, divers, sailors or char­terer: Expe­ri­ence 360° of water­sports live! Gaas­tra Blog rec­om­mends: Save boot Düs­sel­dorf Tick­ets 2012 com­fort­ably online – here you’ll find in addi­tion the boot Düs­sel­dorf Map 2012. Gaas­tra Blog wishes a refresh­ing water­sports week in nau­ti­cal Gaas­tra Fash­ion from the offi­cial Gaas­tra Shop!

Ski Cloth­ing Fash­ion 2011-12 by Gaastra

From now on Gaas­tra delights above sea level as well: For as the world­wide esti­mated brand for high-quality sports­wear and pro­fes­sional sail­ing wear Gaas­tra brings its more than 100 years of know– how as ski fash­ion 2011/12 on the slopes. Fash­ion­able and func­tional ski jack­ets for women, men and chil­dren, breath­able wind– and water­proof ski pants as well as cosy fleeces and soft­shell jack­ets as high-value ski­ing first lay­ers. Clearly: To see and to be seen will count (besides ski­ing) to the most pop­u­lar sports this ski sea­son as well! The recent Gaas­tra ski wear as the promi­nent new dis­cov­ery will most cer­tainly cause a stir this season.

The high-value and at a water col­umn of up to 5.000 mm tested Gaas­tra ski jack­ets and ski pants, present as inno­v­a­tive func­tional ski fash­ion and the per­fect com­pan­ion while cor­ner­ing well. Equipped with many prac­ti­cal and by ski cloth­ing experts esti­mated fea­tures like remov­able snow guards, water­proof zip fas­ten­ing and taped seams like in the Gaas­tra Women Ski Jacket Edi­tion 0008, Gaas­tra gives proof of its know-how from the pro­fes­sional sail­ing gear on slopes by now. Men fly high as well with the recent men’s ski fash­ion: Gal­lant glam­ourously in stitched look for exam­ple, men land at every schuss in the Gaas­tra Men Ski Jacket Sharp par­tic­u­larly warm pro­tected. Be shiny this sea­son with spe­cial ski fash­ion from Gaas­tra and select your favourites: The pre­miere ski wear col­lec­tion 2011/12 is avail­able from now on in the Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop with fast and world­wide delivery! 

Snow pants men Gaas­tra Sky

Ski jacket men Gaas­tra Sharp

Ski jacket women Gaas­tra edi­tion 0008

Scarf women Gaas­tra Camille

Gaas­tra Breskens Sail­ing 2011 Poloshirt Edi­tion, www.gaastraproshop.com

Whew! The Gaas­tra Breskens Sail­ing Week­end 2011 with Gaastra’s pre­miere as the main spon­sor for the next three years, was a really refresh­ing one: 66 pro­fes­sional teams in the Open Dutch Cham­pi­onships (ONK), Off­shore rac­ing IRC, First 31.7 Laser SB3, Yngling, sport­boats– and CR Class, chal­lenged last week­end cast­ing off at the Port of Breskens on 26, 27 and 28 august 2011 at mainly hard sail­ing con­di­tions. The Swan 45 class par­tic­i­pated also with the Blue Label, Check­mate, Hawk­eye, Motions, Saman­taga and Van Uden in its final event for the Swan 45 North Euro­pean Cir­cuit at Gaas­tra Breskens Sail­ing Week­end 2011 and was really put to an ambi­tious test last week­end. All results of the Gaas­tra Breskens Sail­ing Week­end 2011 you can notice here and get some adrenaline-high impres­sions in the Breskens Sail­ing photo album 2011 if you like!

Have you noticed the spe­cial Gaas­tra Breskens Poloshirt Edi­tion 2011 despite of all winds? Our fash­ion­able Gaas­tra Poloshirt pre­miere exlu­sively cre­ated for the Dutch sail­ing event 2011, owns high-quality details like spe­cial Breskens design at front, mar­itime patches at both sleeves, small embroi­dery at back and side slits for com­fort­able wear­ing. A really refresh­ing and fash­ion­able eye catcher! You can save your favourite of the Lim­ited Gaas­tra Breskens Poloshirt Edi­tion for Women and Gaas­tra Breskens Poloshirt Edi­tion for Men the fast and easy way in your Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop. See you next year!

Gaas­tra Breskens Sail­ing Week­end 2011, Logo

A whole week­end full of sail­ing action and evening enter­tain­ment attends all sail­ing enthu­si­asts and friends this August at one of the main sail­ing events 2011: The already 47. edi­tion of the Breskens Sail­ing Week­end runs from now on offi­cially under the name ‘Gaas­tra Breskens Sail­ing Week­end’ for the next three years. That’s what Brenda Ver­schelling, one of the orga­niz­ers of the Gaas­tra Breskens Sail­ing Week­end says to the new coop­er­a­tion between Breskens Sail­ing and Gaas­tra Sports­wear: ‘Gaas­tra is an ambi­tious brand. Nau­ti­cal pas­sion with no com­pro­mises in qual­ity. These prinici­ples fit per­fect with our Sail­ing Week­end.’ Indeed, the inter­na­tional 3-day sail­ing event at Breskens, Nether­lands, near Antwer­pen stands for high-class sail­ing at the Dutch North Sea in the beau­ti­ful set­ting of Breskens.

Open for IRC and CR mea­sured yachts, yachts from the Swan 45, First 31.7., LaserSB3, Yngling and Sports boats classes, the Breskens regatta is valid as well for the ‘Ver­bonds­bezem Com­pe­ti­tion 2011′ of the Water­sportver­bond, the Open North Sea Cham­pi­onships of Bel­gium (ONZK 2011), the North Sea Euro­pean Chal­lenge Tro­phy Gaë­tan Janssens of the UNCL and the 2011 Swan 45 North­ern Euro­pean Cir­cuit. Gaas­tra is look­ing for­ward to this spe­cial sail­ing event 2011 in the Nether­lands with par­tic­i­pants of the Water­sport Verenig­ing Breskens, the Royal Yacht Club van Bel­gië, the Royal Bel­gian Sail­ing Club, the Brus­sels Royal Yacht Club, the Konin­klijke Roei– & Zeil­vereenig­ing “De Maas”, the Konin­klijke Ned­er­land­sche Zeil– en Roeivereenig­ing and the Konin­klijke Antwerpse Water­sportv­erenig­ing SRNA and is glad about its spon­sor­ing pre­miere the upcom­ing week­end 26–28 of august 2011. By the way: The Breskens Marina offers free berthing for all com­peti­tors from Wednes­day August 24 until Mon­day August 29. See you in some weeks at Gaas­tra Breskens Sail­ing Weekend!

Gaas­tra Jack­ets Men, Sail­ing Fash­ion, www.gaastraproshop.com

Gaas­tra VIP-Sale: 30 % off on all St. Barth Poloshirts 2011

Refresh your­self with the trendy and spe­cial Gaas­tra Saint Barth Poloshirt Col­lec­tion 2011: As the offi­cial spon­sor of the exclu­sive sail­ing regatta at French Car­ribean VIP-Island Saint Barthelemy – where Demi Moore, Ash­ton Kutcher and var­i­ous celebri­ties spend their hol­i­days — Gaas­tra has cre­ated this colour­ful sail­ing fash­ion as a pre­miere this year. Choose your favourite colours going from Aqua, Blue, Yel­low, White to Khaki, Lilac, Pink and Hum­mer and get as well a refresh­ment by sav­ing unbeat­able 30% on Women Polos, Men Polos and also Kids Polos! This spe­cial offer valids only until com­ing sun­day the lat­est in your Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop. So be fast and get your St. Barth Poloshirt 2011 includ­ing this spe­cial price advantage!

Les Voiles de St Barth 2011, Pho­tog­ra­phy Kurt Arrigo, Pro­tected by Copyright

Les Voiles de St Barth 2011 Pho­tog­ra­phy Kurt Arrigo Pro­tected by Copy­right (4)

Les Voiles de St Barth 2011 Pho­tog­ra­phy Kurt Arrigo Pro­tected by Copy­right (2)

Les Voiles de St Barth 2011 Pho­tog­ra­phy Kurt Arrigo Pro­tected by Copyright

Search and Win!

Sum­mer­time is win­ning time: This month we have cho­sen a very spe­cial prod­uct from the Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop for you to win! Which prod­uct (see on the detail pic­ture to the left) could that be? Just go on Gaas­tra Search & Win Tour and browse eas­ily the present Gaas­tra Shop assort­ment! If you have found the prod­uct we are look­ing for at this month win­ning com­pe­ti­tion, just send the name of it to our Gaas­tra Blog exec­u­tive Denis at denis@gaastraproshop.com until Wednes­day, 20^th July 2011 mid­night at the lat­est. The win­ner will be announced in the com­men­tary field of this post and informed per­son­ally via a lucky win­ner email. We wish you Good Luck at our Gaas­tra Search & Win sum­mer edi­tion – we will keep our fin­gers crossed for you!

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!

Fash­ion Trends Women 2011 by Gaastra

Recover your breath with the sportive-voguish Women Fash­ion Trends 2011 by Gaas­tra: The light weight and breath­able Gaas­tra ‘Jacket Genoa’ will allow you to lean back, due to its wind– and water­proof qual­i­ties. This fash­ion­able Women Jacket of the Gaas­tra South Ocean Sail­ing Col­lec­tion in reg­u­lar fit and with detach­able hood, adjustable sleeves and fully taped seams for func­tional High-Class Wear­ing, will be your styl­ish fash­ion com­pan­ion on sea and ashore as well. In addi­tion, you can refresh your new Women Look 2011 the light-stretch way with the fash­ion­able Gaas­tra Women ‘T-Shirt Georgina’ made of piqué and out­fit­ted with High-quality Gaas­tra appli­ca­tions. Above all, this vogu­ish Sum­mer Women Out­fit is topped off by a spe­cial Gaas­tra Women Colour Trend for this sea­son: The fash­ion­able and friendly blue of the Coloured Denim Gaas­tra ‘Women Pant Jadan’ in 5-pocket style, belt loops and straight legs points out your fig­ure the best way. But what would be the most Trendy Women Out­fit 2011 with­out gen­teel match­ing Gaas­tra Women Shoes? For the per­fect sporty look, we rec­om­mend you the trendy Gaas­tra Women ‘Sneaker Stream’ made out of finest nappa leather and suede from the sport col­lec­tion. So grab your Gaas­tra ‘Bag Half­moon’ and cast off for a Trend-Shopping-Trip in your Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop!

Gaas­tra Women Jacket Genoa

Gaas­tra Women T-Shirt Georgina

Gaas­tra Women Denim Pant Jadan

Gaas­tra Women Shoes Stream

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!