A boat from Qingdao, Shandong province, leaves port on Saturday at the North Marina Cove in New York to start the final legs of the 2013-2014 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Vicky Song, one of the crewmembers on the boat, is poised to become the first Chinese woman to circumnavigate the globe. JACK FREIFELDER / CHINA DAILY