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

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      You're looking at the 30 / 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 30 / APR / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      1. To remove water from inside the vessel, traditionally with a bucket or scoop (4) — BAIL
      2. A single-masted rig with a mainsail and a single headsail — the commonest modern configuration (5) — SLOOP
      3. A stainless-steel safety rail around the bow (or stern, where it is usually called a pushpit) (6) — PULPIT
      4. To put away neatly and securely (4) — STOW
      5. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      6. An electronic display that overlays the vessel's GPS position on digital charts, and often integrates AIS, radar, sonar,… (12) — CHARTPLOTTER
      7. On a four-sided fore-and-aft sail, the spar that supports the sail's upper (head) edge (4) — GAFF

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      1. A quay, pontoon, or berth where a vessel ties up — and also the act of bringing her alongside (4) — DOCK
      2. An athwartships interior wall that stiffens the hull and subdivides the internal space (8) — BULKHEAD
      3. The pin of a rudder fitting that drops into a gudgeon on the transom, allowing the rudder to swing freely (6) — PINTLE
      4. The periodic vertical rise and fall of the sea surface caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun (4) — TIDE
      5. The marine term for a pulley — a sheave in a housing through which a line runs (5) — BLOCK
      6. Under international rules a vessel is 'underway' whenever she is not at anchor, moored, aground, or made fast to the sho… (8) — UNDERWAY
      7. Everyone aboard besides the skipper who helps sail and run the boat (4) — CREW
      8. To adjust a sail's controls to produce optimum drive and lift (4) — TRIM

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