Daily Maritime Crossword
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The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus · – words in grid
Newspaper-style: today's page publishes the full solution to Wednesday's puzzle
(15 maritime terms).
Today's answers stay hidden until tomorrow — play the grid above, or
replay Wednesday's grid.
Across
A deck-mounted fairlead, often smoothed or rollered, through which docklines and anchor rode are led cleanly (5)
— CHOCK
A permanent ground tackle — anchor, chain, and buoy — to which a vessel can secure instead of deploying her own anchor (7)
— MOORING
To bind or secure with line or webbing (4)
— LASH
A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11)
— CENTERBOARD
In the water behind the vessel, or moving backwards (6)
— ASTERN
The forwardmost structural member of the hull — the bow's leading edge (4)
— STEM
Personal Locator Beacon — a small 406 MHz satellite distress beacon registered to an individual (not a vessel), carried… (3)
— PLB
Down
Differential GPS — a GPS that uses correction signals from ground or satellite-based reference stations to refine accura… (4)
— DGPS
Everyone aboard besides the skipper who helps sail and run the boat (4)
— CREW
A raised lip around the edge of the cockpit or a hatch, designed to keep out water (7)
— COAMING
Heeling excessively because the boat is carrying too much sail for the wind strength (11)
— OVERPOWERED
Located inside the rail or within the hull of the boat (7)
— INBOARD
The left side of the boat when facing forward (4)
— PORT
Electronic Chart Display and Information System — a type-approved electronic charting system accepted as the primary mea… (5)
— ECDIS
The outgoing phase of the tide, when water level is falling and the flow runs seaward (3)
— EBB
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary —
or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.
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