27 / MAY / 2026 · skippercheck.net/crossword
⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
27 / MAY / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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You're looking at the 27 / 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 27 / MAY / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.
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- A sudden, unintended round-up into the wind, usually while running or reaching in strong breeze and waves (6) — BROACH
- The upward force exerted by water on a submerged body — the property that lets an object float (8) — BUOYANCY
- 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
- The generic term at sea for any rope in use (4) — LINE
- A deck fitting — most commonly a horned or jam cleat — designed to hold a line under load (5) — CLEAT
- Global Navigation Satellite System — the umbrella term covering all satellite positioning constellations: GPS (USA), GLO… (4) — GNSS
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- A deck-mounted fairlead, often smoothed or rollered, through which docklines and anchor rode are led cleanly (5) — CHOCK
- Personal Locator Beacon — a small 406 MHz satellite distress beacon registered to an individual (not a vessel), carried… (3) — PLB
- Tangled, jammed, or caught up (6) — FOULED
- To sail a course that will clear a mark or obstacle without an additional tack (3) — LAY
- The line on the hull where it meets the water surface at the design load (9) — WATERLINE
- To put away neatly and securely (4) — STOW
- The steering control — tiller or wheel (4) — HELM
- Automatic Identification System — a VHF-based transponder network that continuously broadcasts a vessel's identity, posi… (3) — AIS
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.