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...