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 Friday's puzzle
(15 maritime terms).
Today's answers stay hidden until tomorrow — play the grid above, or
replay Friday's grid.
Across
Wear on a rope, sail, or sheet caused by repeated rubbing against another surface (5)
— CHAFE
The weighted vertical fin beneath the hull that resists leeway and, through its ballast, keeps the boat upright; modern… (4)
— KEEL
A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11)
— CENTERBOARD
A large headsail whose clew overlaps the mast, giving extra upwind drive compared with a working jib (5)
— GENOA
A tapered hardwood or metal spike used to open the strands of a rope when splicing (3)
— FID
A single-masted rig carrying both a jib (outer headsail) and a staysail on an inner forestay (6)
— CUTTER
Down
A secondary anchor, smaller than the bower, carried for manoeuvring or for kedging the boat off a grounding (5)
— KEDGE
A deck fitting — most commonly a horned or jam cleat — designed to hold a line under load (5)
— CLEAT
In the water behind the vessel, or moving backwards (6)
— ASTERN
On, onto, or inside the vessel (6)
— ABOARD
A microwave ranging system that bounces a rotating pulse off targets and displays their bearing and range; modern broadb… (5)
— RADAR
In the IALA Region B system, a red even-numbered conical buoy marking the starboard side of a channel when entering from… (3)
— NUN
On a four-sided fore-and-aft sail, the spar that supports the sail's upper (head) edge (4)
— GAFF
A sail that has been trimmed so the wind pushes against the reverse side of the cloth, filling it from behind (5)
— ABACK
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.
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