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One of his boats (he used four): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Stadtmuseum-Bad-Toelz-Ausstellung-Pionier-Faltbootwerft-INSTALLATION-

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One of his boats (he used four): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Stadtmuseum-Bad-Toelz-Ausstellung-Pionier-Faltbootwerft-INSTALLATION-Oskar-Speck-Welttour.jpg/800px-Stadtmuseum-Bad-Toelz-Ausstellung-Pionier-Faltbootwerft-INSTALLATION-Oskar-Speck-Welttour.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/St... His route: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Speck-map.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Speck-ma... Photograph of him at the Timor coast: https://cdn.mopo.de/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/farbe-oskar-speck-scaled.jpg https://cdn.mopo.de/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/farbe-oskar-spec... This seems to be a photograph taken after his arrest: https://lovedaylives.com/app/uploads/2021/03/SPECK-2.jpg https://lovedaylives.com/app/uploads/2021/03/SPECK-2.jpg According to the German Wikipedia, he had a small electrical company which went bankrupt during the Great Depression. His original plan was to "only" paddle to Cyprus to work in a copper mine.

lqet 1y ago
> Exactly a year after the attack, I left Saumlaki in a new boat, crossed to the Kei islands, and then faced the longest lap of island-hopping to New Guinea. Indeed, looking at the map of his route, the longest distance he had to actually travel on open sea seems to be around 120 km from the Kei islands to Papua New Guinea [0], which is (at least for me) completely counter-intuitive for a Kayak voyage from Ulm to Australia. [0] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/-4.661/133.234 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/-4.661/133.234