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

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      You're looking at the 10 / MAY / 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 10 / MAY / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      Newspaper-style: today's page publishes the full solution to Saturday's puzzle (15 maritime terms). Today's answers stay hidden until tomorrow — play the grid above, or replay Saturday's grid.

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      1. A point of sail with the wind forward of, abeam, or aft of the beam but not dead astern — close, beam, or broad reach (5) — REACH
      2. Away from land, or out of sight of it (8) — OFFSHORE
      3. The line of sight formed when two marks ashore line up, showing the centre of a channel or a transit bearing (5) — RANGE
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. A low-Earth-orbit satellite broadband system widely adopted on cruising and commercial vessels since the mid-2020s for h… (8) — STARLINK
      6. To sail a course that will clear a mark or obstacle without an additional tack (3) — LAY

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      1. To adjust a sail's controls to produce optimum drive and lift (4) — TRIM
      2. A line rigged through a cringle a short way above the tack of the mainsail and pulled down to increase luff tension, fla… (10) — CUNNINGHAM
      3. Toward, at, or behind the stern (3) — AFT
      4. A fabric and framework spray hood forward of the cockpit that shelters the crew from wind and spray (6) — DODGER
      5. United States Coast Guard — the US federal service responsible for maritime safety, security, and SAR (4) — USCG
      6. The vertical distance from the waterline to the deepest part of the keel — the minimum water depth the vessel needs to float (5) — DRAFT
      7. Search and Rescue Transponder — an emergency device that, when triggered by an X-band radar pulse, replies with a 12-dot… (4) — SART
      8. The outer edge of the deck, where the deck meets the topsides (4) — RAIL
      9. In the IALA Region B system, a red even-numbered conical buoy marking the starboard side of a channel when entering from… (3) — NUN

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