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The book ''1421: The year China discovered the world'' was published in 2003
and this book shows and gives evidences that the Chinese have circumnavigated the globe before the European.
Guys, this is so cool! Let's do this trip and retrace the routes the Chinese took?
We have retraced Magellan's voyage. Why not retrace the circumnavigation the Chinese supposedly made?
Our new boat is being built like a baby in gestation.
The boat is being built in carbon steel and stainless steel.
She's going to have sustainable energy generation.
Solar panels, wind energy generation,
hydraulic energy generation, when sailing,
and we're going to have two stationary bikes with turbines on her,
so the crew will be able to exercise while also charging batteries.
In this expedition we're going to have cutting-edge technology,
not only for sustainability but also for navigation
and, most of all, for data transmition.
This time we're going to have a 492kbps internet connection everywhere in the world.
This means that on the expedition's app or website
you'll be able to follow what's happening on the boat.
We're going to have a 29-meters-tall mast and a 26-meters-tall mast.
The boat will have a retractable keel. What does this mean?
It means that when we're in shallow areas the keel will rise hydraulically
and when we're in open sea it will be lowered and we'll have a 4.5 meters keel.
We're developing a gamification system in which people will be able to play a game,
almost as a competition as the expedition follows.
So people will be able to participate, follow the expedition and also play for prizes
in a game that will be in a certain way like a race between people to see who follows our sailboat the closest.
I think this is a way to engage people, for them to have fun and at the same time learn with the expedition.
It's taking her time to be built, bit by bit, and there's this really cool thing:
the new boat will be named Kat,
so we'll symbolically have our daughter with us in this new circumnavigation.
The family is together in this new trip.
There's also something new: this time a new generation of Schurmanns will go.
Our grandson Emmanuel will be on board.
Our next circumnavigation of the globe will depart from Itajaí and we'll sail to the South
to a place we've never been before: Antarctica.
From there we'll sail across the Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, Australia, then Japan, China,
and then we'll sail across the Indian Ocean, through South Africa, and back to Brazil.
It's a dream. A dream coming true - another one! Another dream coming true for us.
It was on the sea that I learned how to know people, their culture, knowledge,
and that I learned to respect the sea a lot.
It's happening. Now it is! The boat is being built now, the trip is going to happen, things are happening.
The planning for this third circumnavigation was very intense. We had a lot of work, a spectacular team.
The most complicated part of the planning was the search for sponsors.
We have three companies that believed our dream:
Solví, in the sustainability part of the project,
HDI Seguros, in the security part of the project,
and Estácio, in the educational part of the project.
HDI is a company of the Talanx German group, third biggest insurance conglomerate in Germany.
Operating in more than 150 countries, it's in Brazil for more than 30 years as HDI Seguros.
With nation-wide presence, HDI offers solutions and insurances for automobiles and residences
and the vehicles insured by HDI can count on the HDI Bate-Pronto stations,
agile and efficient service stations for casualties.
For HDI, linking our brand to the successful story of the Schurmann Family is a matter of affinity.
Challenging the seas takes a rare capacity of preventing all the possible risks in an adventure that big
while also securing the safety of the vessel and the crew.
Calculating risks and offering security is what we do best.
Good trip!
Estácio is one of the biggest and most respected Higher Education groups in Brazil today.
Integrating university, universitary centers and colleges with undergraduate and postgraduate courses,
presence-based and distance-learning, master's and doctorate degrees.
Estácio was born in the 1970's with the Law school.
After becoming a university, started expanding and evolving its educational system,
which is innovative and aligned to the job market.
That's how we developed the courseware on paper and later on tablet,
in which the students have an exclusive social network for sharing studies.
For us here in Estácio it's a great honor and pleasure to be an active part of the Orient Expedition,
not only for our academic interests but also because this is a great lesson on how important it is to dream,
plan and implement so to reach big goals, just the way we like here in Estácio.
A big hug and wish of a nice trip to the Schurmann Family from the Estácio family.
We, the Solví family, celebrate the opportunity to embark with the Schurmann Family
in their third expedition and to contribute with solutions and technologies for sustainability
so this circumnavigation will cause no environmental harm to our planet's ecosystems.
We celebrate this partnership, which materializes our mission of working for the good
of the planet and the people offering solutions for life.
Good trip to all of us!