Green seas in Qingdao - Olympic Course Area


'Greenhorns sailing in Qingdao - 2008 Training Camp Qingdao China June 2008' Australian Sailing Team
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!'



China is going green - 2008 Training Camp Qingdao China June 2008 - Australian Sailing Team



Sailing on greener pastures - 2008 Training Camp Qingdao China June 2008 - Australian Sailing Team




by Laura Baldwin



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