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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

17 / MAY / 2026 — everyone worldwide gets the same puzzle today. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.

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      Yesterday's clues & answers — 16 / MAY / 2026

      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. Personal Locator Beacon — a small 406 MHz satellite distress beacon registered to an individual (not a vessel), carried… (3) — PLB
      2. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      3. An aramid fibre used in high-performance laminate sails and safety gear; it is strong and resists stretch, but degrades with UV exposure (6) — KEVLAR
      4. Toward, at, or behind the stern (3) — AFT
      5. The cooking area below decks, typically containing a gimballed stove, sink, refrigeration, and lockers (6) — GALLEY
      6. A traditional Arabian sailing craft, typically single- or twin-masted and carrying lateen sails, still seen throughout t… (4) — DHOW

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      1. Short, steep, broken waves — typically caused by wind over a shallow or restricted fetch (4) — CHOP
      2. A large, usually closable opening in the deck or coachroof for access, ventilation, or light (5) — HATCH
      3. A buoyant horseshoe-shaped sling on a floating line, deployed to trail astern during a man-overboard recovery so the cas… (9) — LIFESLING
      4. In the IALA Region B system, a red even-numbered conical buoy marking the starboard side of a channel when entering from… (3) — NUN
      5. To hold, and keep tension on, the free end of a line while a winch grinder takes turns on the drum (4) — TAIL
      6. Differential GPS — a GPS that uses correction signals from ground or satellite-based reference stations to refine accura… (4) — DGPS
      7. The greatest width of the vessel measured at its widest point (4) — BEAM
      8. A two-masted rig whose shorter mizzen mast stands forward of the rudder post and is shorter than the main mast (5) — KETCH
      9. The line of sight formed when two marks ashore line up, showing the centre of a channel or a transit bearing (5) — RANGE

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