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

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      You're looking at the 16 / 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 16 / MAY / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      Yesterday's clues & answers — 15 / MAY / 2026

      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.

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      1. The part of the boat's side close to the stern — port quarter and starboard quarter (7) — QUARTER
      2. Weight — usually carried low in the keel — that lowers the centre of gravity and gives the boat stability and righting moment (7) — BALLAST
      3. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      4. The aerodynamic or hydrodynamic force generated by a sail or keel that drives the boat through the water (4) — LIFT
      5. Any loop or curve formed in a rope between its two ends (5) — BIGHT
      6. The cooking area below decks, typically containing a gimballed stove, sink, refrigeration, and lockers (6) — GALLEY

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      1. The outer sides of the hull between the waterline and the deck (8) — TOPSIDES
      2. The spars, standing rigging, and sail plan collectively — or the act of rigging the boat for sea (3) — RIG
      3. The condition of a vessel whose keel or hull is in contact with the seabed (7) — AGROUND
      4. A buoyant horseshoe-shaped sling on a floating line, deployed to trail astern during a man-overboard recovery so the cas… (9) — LIFESLING
      5. See jibe — a turn in which the stern passes through the wind (4) — GYBE
      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. The distance of open water, to windward, over which the wind has blown — the longer the fetch, the larger the waves (5) — FETCH
      8. The main body of the vessel, excluding the rig, spars, sails, and appendages (4) — HULL
      9. The direction (usually in degrees true) in which a current flows (3) — SET

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