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Re: Anacapa Island Sun Line
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2016 Sep 16, 14:10 -0700
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2016 Sep 16, 14:10 -0700
Bill,
Approximate is good enough for most cases. If dip short is a possible then I duck down some.
Greg Rudzinski
From: Bill B
Date: 2016 Sep 16, 15:57 -0400On 9/15/2016 8:23 PM, Greg Rudzinski wrote: > My height of eye from the boat cockpit was 6 ft. The distance to the > natural horizon is approximately the square root of 6ft = 2.4 nautical > miles..... Why did you not use as a multiplier for the square root of 6? Such as 1.169?
