06.26.08
Green seas in Qingdao.
Seems the Olympic sailing events in Qingdao will be interesting. I found this article by Laura Baldwin on Sail-World.
240 boats try and remove sea-weed from the Qingdao Olympic course area
Australia’s 470 Coach, Victor Kovalenko shared these photos and insight from the current training camp in China.
‘As you can see we have one more problem in Qingdao apart of light wind and strong current, it is seaweed. The local government has employed 240 fishing boats to clean Qingdao bay and they are working really hard but… Sailing is almost impossible now!’
Other days the fog has been so thick that a GPS has been needed to find the way back to shore.
470 stars Nathan Wilmot & Malcolm Page probably didn’t think they would be sailing in conditions like these when they named their boat ‘Dead Calm!’
Kim said,
July 5, 2008 at 22:48 pm
Going green! Nice one…And yes, you’re right, they should have come to Dalian!
Stranded Mariner said,
July 5, 2008 at 23:05 pm
Yes, Dalian would have been good, or Xiamen. Well let’s see how it goes.