Is the rec book mentioned new one? I remember someone made printable rec book about a couple of months after the release of SH3. What ships are included in it?
Hey I missed the chance to get the "official" rec book when it was included in the US pre-order of SH3, and I remember Neal gave us as a pirse at some time at subsim.com for some contest or even at SimHQ Teddy Bear gave it us at some occasion when he was the moderator of Naval/SilentHunter forum...
The monstrous package of hyped GWX version 2 has great numbers of new ships (actually I don't remember how many ships in the original except torp-worth merchants) and moreover, aren't we impatiently anticipating iambecomelife's merchant ships
So I guess I anyway need to create one by myself if I want the catalogue of all avail now.
As for range, back then someone made a simple table and I found it in my harddrive. But it's limited to "generic" ships (mast height 10.5m or 25m and C2/C3 cargo). Performing a calculation with some sliderule may be better way for this...
BTW, I excavated this thread:
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=46693 in my SH3 folder (I seem to saved don1reed's what_is_track.jpg which seems to be missing now, it's a table of AOB and distance)