Dirk,
we could call you a local to the Olympic venue, but China being the size it is, you could be 100s of miles away.anyhow here goes........

Being a local, i would be interested to hear you views on the forthcoming olympic regatta and their chances of some decent sailing. Will it be as rubbish as everyone is making out?

Congrats on getting the SC6.5 afloat

Paul

I was in China in June '06, and had some posts from China on Cat sailor at the time.

Wooter, linked me to a website of Shanghai sailors. I went to the bar the website talked about on a saturday night before leaving Shanghai for TX the next day, and could not find any sailors there. Oh well.

That club you went too is actually Dirks sailing club. I'm still a little baffled that you didn't meet any sailors there.

Wouter

todd, its not a sailors bar. its a meeting point on sunday mornings for the bus to take people to the lake.

other than that we have a social evening once a months on different locations. mail me next time you come to shanghai!

paul, shanghai is xxxx miles south of qingdao but the weather pattern is pretty similar still.

unfortunately I lost the link but there is a dutch(?) kitesurfer site which tracks windspeeds, directions and waveheights and shows them on a graph. it features qingdao too, so might be good to keep an eye on it... must be known under kitesurfer. guess even round texel used this service once for their forecasts...

my personal view is that the preolympics last year were lucky: they still had a couple of days with some kind of wind. 2008 you can be lucky too, maybe even more lucky, but probability is upper 30° C and fog and no wind...

We don't have much fog here, as we sail 100 km inwards from the sea, but encounter 40° C these days... so really no fun trying to sail without wind. in summer wind is mostly thermal, besides the typhoons.
a friend of mine just placed his mini 6.5 in quingdao, so will see what he will say about the wind conditions...