Daily Maritime Crossword
30 / MAY / 2026 · skippercheck.net/crossword
30 / MAY / 2026 · skippercheck.net/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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- To propel a boat with a single oar worked side-to-side through a notch or rowlock in the transom (5) — SCULL
- A nautical map showing coastlines, depths, aids to navigation, and hazards (5) — CHART
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- The forwardmost structural member of the hull — the bow's leading edge (4) — STEM
- To remove water from inside the vessel, traditionally with a bucket or scoop (4) — BAIL
- In the water behind the vessel, or moving backwards (6) — ASTERN
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- The vertical distance from the waterline to the deepest part of the keel — the minimum water depth the vessel needs to float (5) — DRAFT
- 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
- The mostly horizontal upper surface of the hull (4) — DECK
- A line used to trim a sail — e (5) — SHEET
- The upper corner of a sail; also, the marine toilet (4) — HEAD
- A microwave ranging system that bounces a rotating pulse off targets and displays their bearing and range; modern broadb… (5) — RADAR
- Weight — usually carried low in the keel — that lowers the centre of gravity and gives the boat stability and righting moment (7) — BALLAST
- 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.