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4 May 2024

The New Xu Fu Voyage East / 新徐福東渡 Major breakthrough: Our story just broke in 3 mainstream Chinese news channels 👍. 21 days to start ...

China News: http://m.chinanews.com/wap/detail/…

Sina: https://sports.sina.cn/others/2024-05-04/…

Phoenix: http://share.fengshows.com/article.html/…

We are still way off our fundraising target, so kindly support us if you can. We also have a crowdfunding option, see Bronze supporter: https://yantu.com/the-new-xu-fu-voyage-east-projec… Thank you! 🙏🤗👍

By following the link you can also learn more about our ESG partners and our Citizen Science contribution to UN Sustainable Development Goals 13, Climate Change, and 14, Life Below Water. More to come on the ESG front...

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Yantu Project by Christian Havrehed 黄思远

2 May 2024

New Xu Fu Voyage East / 新徐福東渡 🚣‍♂️ Schools showing interest 👍

We have two new silver sponsors. Ranum Efterskole College in Denmark and @wycombeabbey in China. They are both boarding schools.

Wycombe Abbey offers a British education in China from kindergarden through to A-Levels. Ranum offers Danish and British O-levels in Denmark. Both have exceptional extracurricular activites and an international student cohert.

Wycombe Abbey also works with Engage with China where 10 British students annually are offered two year scholarships to do their A-levels in China. I am honoured to be Adventure Ambassador for Engage With China. Engage with China is a UK NGO whose mission it is to build China literacy in UK schools. A thankless task, now that China has largely fallen out of favour in the West, but that is exactly a reason to engage, not withdraw.

As former Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Lester B. Pearson said: "How can there be peace without people understanding each other, and how can this be if they don't know each other?"

Ranum Efterskole College, Wycombe Abbey, and Engage with China all promote international understanding by giving students an exceptional learning experience that will make them inclusive and informed global citizens. Such skills will be sorely needed when the effects of climate change really kicks in.

Wycombe Abbey China has come aboard because they really like rowing so we will be interaction with their rowing team throughout our voyage. Later in the year Sun Haibin and I will visit WAS Changzhou to give a talk and the students there will then teach us how to row (we cannot row anything that can capsize 🤪).

The students at Ramum Efterskole College want to follow our citizen science iniatitive of collecting seawater samples for Deheyn Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to help the lab further its research into microfibre from fabrics in the oceans; a problem as common as microplastics, but much less understood and talked about.

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That is excellent news, well done. Growing the partnership is good and we are delighted that Wycombe Abbey China is pulling alongside you and supporting you. I hope that some of them will wave you off from the coast!

Yantu Project by Christian Havrehed 黄思远

27 April 2024

The New Xu Fu Voyage East Expedition / 新徐福東渡 Our story just broke in Denmark's second biggest news channel, TV2 👍. 28 days to start ...

https://nyheder.tv2.dk/udland/…

We are still way off our fundraising target, so kindly support us if you can. We also have a crowdfunding option, see Bronze supporter: https://yantu.com/the-new-xu-fu-voyage-east-projec… Thank you! 🙏🤗👍

By following the link you can also learn more about our ESG partners and our Citizen Science contribution to UN Sustainable Development Goals 13, Climate Change, and 14, Life Below Water. More to come on the ESG front...

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Det er fantastisk Christian❤️

Retracing Chinese visits to America pre-Columbus

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4 May 2024

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Det er fantastisk Christian❤️

Yantu Project by Christian Havrehed 黄思远

21 April 2024

The New Xu Fu Voyage East Expedition / 新徐福東渡 Explorer Club Flag Nr. 139 granted👍. 33 days to start ...

I am thrilled to learn that we have been granted Flag Nr. 139 by The Explorers Club to bring along on our expedition. First used in 1949 the flag is as old as the Peoples Republic of China! Some of its past 29 expedition have included China.

The Flag was last selected for an expedition in 2012, so it is a great honour and obligation that The New Xu Fu Voyage East expedition has been deemed worthy of flying it.

We are still way off our fundraising target, so kindly support us if you can. We also have a crowdfunding option, see Bronze supporter: https://yantu.com/the-new-xu-fu-voyage-east-projec… Thank you! 🙏🤗👍

By following the link you can also learn more about our ESG partners and our Citizen Science contribution to UN Sustainable Development Goals 13, Climate Change, and 14, Life Below Water. More to come on the ESG front...

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You will fly the flag with passion and grit and determination and humour. This is more great news. We are sure that you will also be spurred on by thoughts of those who have journeyed and adventured before you. 加油

Stage 1 - China to Japan - The New Xu Fu Voyage East

Yantu Project by Christian Havrehed 黄思远

29 May 2023

PROJECT DELAYED UNTIL 2024 😕

The New Xu Fu Project East.

We should have left China for Korea yesterday, but we did not manage to get permission to row out of China despite our best efforts and lots of first rate support from various embassies and individuals.

We needed a special permit to row out of China, as China is not open to international yachting, but current China-Korea-Japan relations made our request too difficult 🤷‍♂️.

We will now spend the rest of 2023 to see if we can get a firm commitment that we can leave in May 2024.

If we are unable to obtain this commitment before the end of the year, we will put the boat in a container early next year and ship it to Korea or Japan and start the voyage from there instead.

This will dilute the significance of the row, but at least we get under way and will be able to fundraiser for a project, which we can guarantee will happen 👍.

I am dissapointed, but not surprised.

We want to do something, which has not been done in China before, so of course all parties need time to evaluate and digest the whole thing. Hopefully, by year end, we will have a breakthrough 🙏🤞.

Meanwhile, we are investigating what we can row domestically in China this year. It would be nice to do some kind of a row this year.

The boat "Yantu 2" has been put in storage with Sun Haibin's friend in Zhoushan.

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Yantu Project by Christian Havrehed 黄思远 is in Shanghai, China.

1 April 2023

NEW XU FU VOYAGE EAST

I had the pleasure of spending a great evening with Zhai Mo ( 翟墨 ) who is the first and only Mainland Chinese to have commenced/finished a circumnavigation in Mainland China. He did it single-handed out of Rizhao👍. Single-handed or not, not many Mainland Chinese have sailed around the world, so to meet Zhai Mo was a real privilege🙃. He lives on his 80ft aluminum ketch currently moored at the Bund in Shanghai. First sailing yacht I've seen with a real bathtop 🛁

Apart from swapping adventure stories, scheeming about adventures we can cooperate on, and drinking far too much baijiu (a very strong Chinese liquor somewhat similar to the Danish snaps, but on speed) we also discussed the issue of Sun Haibin and me getting the permit to row out of China 27 May.

Zhao Mi can leave China and come back on his private yacht, but it wasn't easy for him to get to that, either.

Read more about Zhai Mo's latest voyage along then Northwest Passage: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/hi/hawaii/…

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I suppose, not tobe outdone, you are going to try and outfit Yantu with a bathtub.😁

Great stories and best of luck regarding permits.

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Yantu Project by Christian Havrehed 黄思远 is at Narita International Airport Tokyo, Japan.

13 November 2022

DID THE CHINESE, LIKE THE VIKINGS, VISIT AMERICA PRE-COLUMBUS : RESEARCH TRIP JAPAN

I'm sitting on airside in Narita airport waiting to board my flight for Hong Kong where I have a number of meeting about the 2023 China-Korea-Japan row following in the wake of XuFu, the sorcerer who was sent by the First Emperor of China in 210BC to retrieve the elixir of immortality from the Gods in the Eastern Seas.

I've had a fantastic 14 days in Japan, travelling the length of the country and meeting lots of interesting people, laymen, artists and academics alike, associated with XuFu and the Ainu.

The trip has yielded more knowledge and relationships than I ever deared hope for, and this is due to the huge help from Kaori Uchiyama and Yousuke without whom I would only have been able to do 20% of what we've achieved. So a huge thank you 🙏🙏🙏

I've got a ton of research to digest and relationships to develop both for next year's row as well as the following years when we continue from Hokkaido to Kamchatka and on to Alaska.

Throughout the trip I've met with overwhelming interest in the project and people have got really fired up about it.

We now need to translate these relationships into letters of support for the row that we can use to support our application to get permission to depart from China by rowing boat. China is not open for private international recreational yachting (and rowing boats), so it's difficult both to ship the rowboat to China and get permission to leave by sea in it.

But if this (and previous) projects have taught me anything then it is : Anything is possible! 加油 💪

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There are ’sturgeon-nose canoes’ of indigenous design that are only found in eastern Russia-China (Amur River / HeiLong Jiang) and British Columbia Canada and Western Washington State USA, giving credence to Bering Strait landbridge communication between Asia and NorAm during the last ice age. The DNA analysis doesn’t tend to support pre-Columbian nautical contact does it?

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Global Canal Rowing Action

1 of 100 global rows in support of climate action, presented at COP27, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Yantu Project by Christian Havrehed 黄思远

8 November 2022

Nice report by the Chinese Cultural Center in Copenhagen about our joint Copenhagen Canal COP27 row.

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Yantu Project by Christian Havrehed 黄思远

15 October 2022

ROW ROUND DENMARK FOR CLEAN SEAS at COP28 - Climate Change Conference - Dubai

The Row Round Denmark for Clean Seas finished two months ago. It took Lars Gabe and me 35 days to cover the 1,256km distance and achieve a "world first" of rowing around Denmark in a rowboat. Along the way we worked with different local environmental NGOs and arranged 9 beach clean ups, where we together with 136 volunteers removed 899kg of trash from Denmark’s beaches and harbours. We also gave lectures about the importance of clean seas to close to 500 people.

After Sun Haibin and I became the first individuals from China and Denmark to row across the Atlantic in 2001, we published a book in China with a quote from Wang Shi 王石, fellow adventurer and Chairman of Vanke, on the back cover: 一次对生命之力的感知和阅读。面对生命之舟,前行是我们的选择 (Reflections on a unique encounter with the forces of life. Confronted with life’s boat [journey], moving forward is our choice).

Who could have guessed that 20 years later, at COP28 in Glasgow, Wang Shi would launch his Deep Dive Global Canal Rowing Action initiative, with the goal of rowing 100 canals around the globe to raise awareness about the importance of Zero Carbon, Zero Waste and Clean Water? And what are the chances that he would be rowing the Kieler Kanal at the end of June at the same time we started our row around Denmark and that we as a result would get back in touch?

A few days ago, using the boat from our row round Denmark, I rowed the canals of Copenhagen Harbour together with Peng Li, a representative of Wang Shi, and Zheng Wen, the Director of the China Cultural Center in Copenhagen. The Copenhagen row will now become one of the 100 canal rows, to be featured at COP27 in El-Sheikh. Pretty cool 😉

A fitting end to the Row Round Denmark for Clean Seas project, which had originally also been conceptualised to promote Sino-Danish understanding by me rowing again with Sun Haibin, but since COVID prevented him from coming to Denmark, this part of the project was unfulfilled. Until now.

Ensuring earth remains liveable for future generations is paramount and can only be achieved by working togehter. We have plenty of tools at our disposal to seek common ground and make positive differences. ESG Investing and the EU Taxonomy will increasingly force companies to align with UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The extent to which companies undertake actual CSR initiatives or merely fill out ESG reporting templates will decide the level of Greenwashing that takes place and the fate of our planet. If you are interested in initiating actual CSR initiatives and could use some inspiration, at a hands-on and/or strategic level, feel free to get in touch.

Like and follow this page to stay updated on the next adventure: Did the Chinese, like the Vikings, visit America before Columbus? And please share this page if you like the stuff I am doing.

Thank you all for helping make Row Round Denmark for Clean Seas a success 🙂

Christian Havrehed

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Row Round Denmark for Clean Seas

Community engagement project to remove a ton of trash from the sea

The Ranum Bubble for Stranded UWC Students

20 November 2021

Our Bubble might be over, but other UWC students are facing the same problems we did.

Please sign this petition to help Stranded UWC students from around the world get to UWC Isak in Japan.

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The Ranum Bubble for Stranded UWC Students

22 May 2021

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22 May 2021

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The Ranum Bubble for Stranded UWC Students is at Ranum Efterskole College.

22 May 2021

The Bubble journey has now come to an end. The Bubble graduated from UWC Changshu China and we will now go our own ways and become wonderful adults. These past two years have been very tough for each and every single one of us, we’ve all faced very difficult challenges but It has been an incredible journey and we are extremely thankful for the opportunity that has been given to us. Thank you so much, we hope to see you again soon! ... See MoreSee Less

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Que lindo ver a Sofy obtener su titulo de Bachiller Internacional y cumpliendo el inicio de un gran sueño estudiar en otros paises y felicitarle por aprovechar estagran oportunidad que sus papitos le dieron para ellos tambien muchas felicidades

Me sumo a la alegría que embarga a Uds. como padres y un felicitación sincera a la graduada, el camino a la excelencia apenas ha empezado.

Wow! You made it!!!!! Congrats to all of you

The Ranum Bubble for Stranded UWC Students

21 May 2021

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This is incredible! What an amazing effort from all the students and the people who helped them! Mariana Stilwell D'Avillez Arrobas Christian Havrehed

The Ranum Bubble for Stranded UWC Students

21 May 2021

THE LINK TO THE LIVE STREAM

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