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25 / APR / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.

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      You're looking at the 25 / APR / 2026 daily maritime crossword — a free nautical puzzle drawn from our 259-term corpus of COLREGs rules, VHF radio procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary. Every daily puzzle is deterministic — players worldwide saw exactly the same grid on 25 / APR / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      1. Wear on a rope, sail, or sheet caused by repeated rubbing against another surface (5) — CHAFE
      2. The weighted vertical fin beneath the hull that resists leeway and, through its ballast, keeps the boat upright; modern… (4) — KEEL
      3. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      4. A large headsail whose clew overlaps the mast, giving extra upwind drive compared with a working jib (5) — GENOA
      5. A tapered hardwood or metal spike used to open the strands of a rope when splicing (3) — FID
      6. A single-masted rig carrying both a jib (outer headsail) and a staysail on an inner forestay (6) — CUTTER

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      1. A secondary anchor, smaller than the bower, carried for manoeuvring or for kedging the boat off a grounding (5) — KEDGE
      2. A deck fitting — most commonly a horned or jam cleat — designed to hold a line under load (5) — CLEAT
      3. In the water behind the vessel, or moving backwards (6) — ASTERN
      4. On, onto, or inside the vessel (6) — ABOARD
      5. A microwave ranging system that bounces a rotating pulse off targets and displays their bearing and range; modern broadb… (5) — RADAR
      6. In the IALA Region B system, a red even-numbered conical buoy marking the starboard side of a channel when entering from… (3) — NUN
      7. On a four-sided fore-and-aft sail, the spar that supports the sail's upper (head) edge (4) — GAFF
      8. A sail that has been trimmed so the wind pushes against the reverse side of the cloth, filling it from behind (5) — ABACK
      9. The lower edge of a sail (4) — FOOT

      Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.