Daily Maritime Crossword
02 / JUN / 2026 · skippercheck.net/crossword
02 / JUN / 2026 · skippercheck.net/crossword
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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
02 / JUN / 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 — 01 / JUN / 2026
Newspaper-style: today's page publishes the full solution to Monday's puzzle (15 maritime terms). Today's answers stay hidden until tomorrow — play the grid above, or replay Monday's grid.
Across
- Any space inside the vessel that is beneath the deck (5) — BELOW
- One nautical mile per hour — the standard unit of speed at sea (4) — KNOT
- To lead a line through a block, ring, or eye (5) — REEVE
- 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
- A reverse-osmosis desalinator that forces seawater through a semi-permeable membrane at high pressure to produce drinkin… (10) — WATERMAKER
- The main body of the vessel, excluding the rig, spars, sails, and appendages (4) — HULL
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- The disturbed water and trailing waves left behind a moving vessel (4) — WAKE
- A collective term for a jib or genoa — any sail set forward of the mast (8) — FORESAIL
- Any craft — sail, power, or other — used or capable of being used as a means of transport on water (6) — VESSEL
- To throw — usually a line (5) — HEAVE
- A small, heavy, triangular storm sail that replaces the mainsail on its own track or separate track in survival conditio… (7) — TRYSAIL
- The line of sight formed when two marks ashore line up, showing the centre of a channel or a transit bearing (5) — RANGE
- The spars, standing rigging, and sail plan collectively — or the act of rigging the boat for sea (3) — RIG
- A point of sail with the wind coming from dead astern (3) — RUN
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.