28 / MAY / 2026 · skippercheck.net/crossword
⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
28 / MAY / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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You're looking at the 28 / 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 28 / MAY / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.
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- United States Coast Guard — the US federal service responsible for maritime safety, security, and SAR (4) — USCG
- Toward the wind's source (6) — UPWIND
- A vessel filled with water but still floating (7) — SWAMPED
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- The vertical spar — originally timber, today commonly aluminium or carbon — from which the mainsail is hoisted (4) — MAST
- See forestay — the standing rigging from bow to masthead (8) — HEADSTAY
- Secured — held in place, tied off (4) — FAST
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- A large headsail whose clew overlaps the mast, giving extra upwind drive compared with a working jib (5) — GENOA
- The upper corner of a sail; also, the marine toilet (4) — HEAD
- The grooved wheel inside a block or at the head of a mast over which a line runs (6) — SHEAVE
- The left side of the boat when facing forward (4) — PORT
- The curved extension of a sail's area aft of a straight line drawn from head to clew (5) — ROACH
- Search and Rescue Transponder — an emergency device that, when triggered by an X-band radar pulse, replies with a 12-dot… (4) — SART
- A piston or snap hook used to attach the luff of a foresail at intervals along the forestay (4) — HANK
- A piece of standing rigging supporting a mast in the fore-and-aft direction (4) — STAY
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.