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F18 & F16 mul­ti­hulls are prepar­ing for a chal­leng­ing week­end: The first warn­ing sig­nal at The Gaas­tra North Sea Series 2011 will be made on Sat­ur­day, May 28 for the first race of the day. This spe­cial Gaas­tra sail­ing event in the chal­leng­ing North Sea demands great skills and Know-How of cop­ing with sea and its tides. The Gaas­tra North Sea Series is organ­ised by the rich in tra­di­tion Royal Bel­gian Sail­ing Club (RBSC), founded already in 1863 that counts more than 2500 mem­bers with Gaas­tra as the Offi­cial cloth­ing sup­plier. Gaas­tra exclu­sively cre­ated a RBSC Gaas­tra Col­lec­tion for the sec­ond time with High-Quality Gaas­tra RBSC jack­ets and Gaas­tra RBSC Polos, which are avail­able only for the mem­bers of the Royal Bel­gian Sail­ing Club via the RBSC Club Web­site or directly on the club spot. For your next races have in mind as well our new Gaas­tra Pro Sail­ing Gear 2011 arrivals in the Offi­cial Gaas­tra Online Shop. The Gaas­tra North Sea Series 2011 will be held in front of the Beach Club Duin­ber­gen /Knokke-Heist Bel­gium. Gaas­tra wishes all par­tic­i­pants and vis­i­tors a suc­ces­ful and royal week­end!

Shorten sails! For the 27th time the world’s lead­ing event in Olympic sail­ing and the biggest regatta in the Nether­lands will take place this year from May 24th to 29th 2011: The Delta Lloyd Regatta within the ISAF Sail­ing World Cup will take place in Medem­b­lik and is one of the most inno­v­a­tive inter­na­tional regatta for Olympic classes in Europe. Last year, the Delta Lloyd Regatta was the first that strived to broad­cast sail­ing matches with the help of a GPS sys­tem com­bin­ing Live Stream­ing and 3D track­ing and trac­ing. That way the races are vis­i­ble in real­time for peo­ple on the shore. Over 700 boats from more than 50 coun­tries with 1000 par­tic­i­pants will chal­lenge these Olympic Sail­ing days on Ijs­selmeer at his­toric nau­ti­cal Medem­b­lik. The Gaas­tra spon­sored Olympic Sail­ing Team Steven and the recent bronze medal win­ner dur­ing Hyeres World­cup 2011 Pieter-Jan Postma , will heave out at Delta Lloyd Regatta as well and com­pete in Gaas­tra Pro Sail­ing Wear on water and in Gaas­tra Sports­wear on shore. If you like to join in, watch the video we posted for you of the lik­able and ambi­tious „Stevens“ (Steven Krol and Steven Le Fevre) with phys­i­cal trainer Patrick van Balkom in action!

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For tech­ni­cal sail­ing gear Gaas­tra Pro is the best guar­an­tee you can have; water­proof gear devel­oped by pro­fes­sional sailors and tested under rac­ing con­di­tions. The col­lec­tion has been skill­fully put together to with­stand all weather con­di­tions whether it be dur­ing on-shore pur­suits or transat­lantic voy­ages. The GX-01 col­lec­tion includes an out­stand­ing water­proof bench­mark fea­ture equiv­a­lent to a water col­umn of 20,000 mm and has been designed right down to the small­est detail to ensure com­fort and pro­tec­tion under the most extreme sail­ing con­di­tions. With Bemis tapeused as gar­ment fin­ish­ing, Gaas­tra Pro guar­an­tees that wind and water wil l not hin­der your sail­ing performance.

Enter the world of pro­fes­sional sail­ing now!

The gar­ment info short cuts:

• TORAY: Water­proof breath­able fab­ric that offers high per­for­mance while keep­ing water out and allow­ing per­spi­ra­tion to escape.

• BEMIS: A ther­mo­plas­tic adhe­sive film applied to sewn seams to pre­vent water and wind penetration.

• riri zip­pers: These zip­pers will keep you dry and com­fort­able so you can con­cen­trate on your performance.

• IBQ: This highly durable Kevlar rein­forced fab­ric offers com­fort and protection.