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Daily Maritime Crossword
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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

30 / 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 — 29 / MAY / 2026

      Newspaper-style: today's page publishes the full solution to Friday's puzzle (14 maritime terms). Today's answers stay hidden until tomorrow — play the grid above, or replay Friday's grid.

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      1. To propel a boat with a single oar worked side-to-side through a notch or rowlock in the transom (5)SCULL
      2. A nautical map showing coastlines, depths, aids to navigation, and hazards (5)CHART
      3. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11)CENTERBOARD
      4. The forwardmost structural member of the hull — the bow's leading edge (4)STEM
      5. To remove water from inside the vessel, traditionally with a bucket or scoop (4)BAIL
      6. In the water behind the vessel, or moving backwards (6)ASTERN

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      1. The vertical distance from the waterline to the deepest part of the keel — the minimum water depth the vessel needs to float (5)DRAFT
      2. A line rigged through a cringle a short way above the tack of the mainsail and pulled down to increase luff tension, fla… (10)CUNNINGHAM
      3. The mostly horizontal upper surface of the hull (4)DECK
      4. A line used to trim a sail — e (5)SHEET
      5. The upper corner of a sail; also, the marine toilet (4)HEAD
      6. A microwave ranging system that bounces a rotating pulse off targets and displays their bearing and range; modern broadb… (5)RADAR
      7. Weight — usually carried low in the keel — that lowers the centre of gravity and gives the boat stability and righting moment (7)BALLAST
      8. Global Positioning System — the US satellite constellation whose signals let a receiver compute its position, heading, a… (3)GPS

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