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Gaas­tra Les Voiles de St. Barth 2011, Kurt Arrigo Pho­tog­ra­phy, Copyright

Cruises or ski­ing hol­i­days belong to the clas­sic vaca­tions dur­ing win­ter sea­son: One sail­ing jour­ney trend becomes increas­ingly pop­u­lar: The active sail­ing trips. Most notably on the Canaries and sail­ing par­adise Caribbean, begin­ner sailors and sail­ing expe­ri­enced sailors find per­fect con­di­tions while win­ter and couches dom­i­nate our regions. Those, who rather want to swap for a cata­ma­ran, will surely be in good hands on an active sail­ing trip!

A spe­cial and par­a­disian sail­ing route leads from french Mar­tinique, called Isle of Flow­ers (Madin­ina) by the locals, over St. Lucia to St. Vin­cent to the Tobago Cays. Turquoise blue water, colour­ful coral reefs and the for the region typ­i­cal trade winds drive the cata­ma­rane: On this sail­ing jour­ney you can dis­cover nature and get to know the other crew mem­bers as well. For within the active sail­ing trips, the per­sonal togeth­er­ness and team spirit are to the fore at the same time. The caribbean trip cata­ma­ranes own usu­ally four crew cabs, one skip­per cab and a big salon, for eight guests alto­gether – for recre­ation in the sun and active sail­ing as well of course! Wheter as a fam­ily, a smaller group, cou­ple or sin­gle – all uni­fies the pas­sion for sailing.

A two week caribbean sail­ing jour­ney start­ing at Mar­tinique offers for exam­ple the ger­man expe­ri­enced Kaya Lodge sail­ing jour­neys. You will sail on a cata­ma­rane Belize 43, sail­ing knowl­edge is not absolutely nec­es­sary. Dif­fer­ent dates you can book on the Kaya Lodge Web­site also for the Canary Islands, Croa­tia, Sar­dinia and much more des­ti­na­tions. A spe­cial note you must make in your sail­ing cal­en­dar 2012 as well will be from april 2–7 – since this time, the sec­ond edi­tion of the renowned Gaas­tra spon­sored caribbean Les Voiles de St. Barth 2012 will take place! Selected fash­ion from the Gaas­tra VIP-Collection 2011 you can still save online at present, that will pro­vide caribbean winds under­neath the Christ­mas tree!