14 / MAY / 2026 · skippercheck.net/crossword
⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
14 / MAY / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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You're looking at the 14 / 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 14 / MAY / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.
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- A fast-moving, short-lived storm cell producing sudden strong winds and often heavy rain (6) — SQUALL
- To interpose a sail or other object between the wind and another sail so the downwind sail is starved of breeze (7) — BLANKET
- The direction (usually in degrees true) in which a current flows (3) — SET
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- To reduce effective sail area in strong wind by rolling, folding, or partly lowering a sail (4) — REEF
- To remove water from inside the vessel, traditionally with a bucket or scoop (4) — BAIL
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- To propel a boat with a single oar worked side-to-side through a notch or rowlock in the transom (5) — SCULL
- Differential GPS — a GPS that uses correction signals from ground or satellite-based reference stations to refine accura… (4) — DGPS
- A thin strip of timber, fibreglass, or carbon inserted into a pocket along the leech of a sail to maintain its aerodynamic shape (6) — BATTEN
- A large headsail whose clew overlaps the mast, giving extra upwind drive compared with a working jib (5) — GENOA
- A secondary anchor, smaller than the bower, carried for manoeuvring or for kedging the boat off a grounding (5) — KEDGE
- To put away neatly and securely (4) — STOW
- The forward end of the vessel (3) — BOW
- To roll or gather up a sail so it stows neatly on a boom, stay, or inside a spar (4) — FURL
- The outgoing phase of the tide, when water level is falling and the flow runs seaward (3) — EBB
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.