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

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      You're looking at the 26 / 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 26 / APR / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      1. The aerodynamic or hydrodynamic force generated by a sail or keel that drives the boat through the water (4) — LIFT
      2. (Also 'gybe') To change tack by turning the stern through the wind, allowing the mainsail and boom to swing across (4) — JIBE
      3. A legacy unit of depth equal to six feet (1 (6) — FATHOM
      4. A piece of standing rigging supporting a mast in the fore-and-aft direction (4) — STAY
      5. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      6. The left side of the boat when facing forward (4) — PORT
      7. In the IALA Region B buoyage system (USA, parts of the Americas, Japan, Korea, Philippines), an odd-numbered green cylin… (3) — CAN
      8. A low-Earth-orbit satellite broadband system widely adopted on cruising and commercial vessels since the mid-2020s for h… (8) — STARLINK

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      1. To adjust a sail's controls to produce optimum drive and lift (4) — TRIM
      2. The upward force exerted by water on a submerged body — the property that lets an object float (8) — BUOYANCY
      3. The right side of the boat when facing forward (9) — STARBOARD
      4. Forward, or toward the bow (4) — FORE
      5. The whole line-and-chain assembly linking the anchor to the boat (4) — RODE
      6. A two-masted rig similar to a ketch but with the (smaller) mizzenmast stepped aft of the rudder post; the mizzen is used… (4) — YAWL
      7. A magnetic instrument indicating the vessel's heading relative to the Earth's magnetic field (7) — COMPASS

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