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Originally Posted by finchOU
from the couple of years I've been snooping around these forums the anwser seems to be no......i guess the Skipper would just count the vertiacl ticks...translate that to an angle....Id the ship for mast hieght...solve the trig for distance.
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here is a period article providing details on how the ww2 era German Stadimeter worked. It is written in German though. it appears that initially they only had the horizontal line range finder, but later in the war had the split image type range finder. basically input the mast height and the split image does the rest mechanically to solve for distance.
http://personales.ciudad.com.ar/piet...Stadimeter.jpg