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

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      You're looking at the 19 / 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 19 / MAY / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      1. The aft lower corner of a fore-and-aft sail; on a mainsail it is tensioned by the outhaul, on a jib by the sheets (4) — CLEW
      2. On a four-sided fore-and-aft sail, the spar that supports the sail's upper (head) edge (4) — GAFF
      3. To roll or gather up a sail so it stows neatly on a boom, stay, or inside a spar (4) — FURL
      4. In the IALA Region B buoyage system (USA, parts of the Americas, Japan, Korea, Philippines), an odd-numbered green cylin… (3) — CAN
      5. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      6. In the IALA Region B system, a red even-numbered conical buoy marking the starboard side of a channel when entering from… (3) — NUN
      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. To lead a line through a block, ring, or eye (5) — REEVE

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      1. The direction, expressed in degrees, in which the vessel is being steered (6) — COURSE
      2. A pyrotechnic distress signal — handheld red flares are for close-range visibility, parachute red flares for long-range,… (5) — FLARE
      3. See forestay — the standing rigging from bow to masthead (8) — HEADSTAY
      4. Length Overall — the maximum fore-and-aft hull length, excluding bowsprits and pulpits unless specifically included (3) — LOA
      5. To lay a rope down in neat, uniform loops for storage, or the stored loops themselves (4) — COIL
      6. To adjust the tension and alignment of the standing rigging so the mast stands straight and the sails set correctly (4) — TUNE
      7. 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.