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02 / JUN / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.

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      You're looking at the 02 / JUN / 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 02 / JUN / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      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.

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      1. Any space inside the vessel that is beneath the deck (5) — BELOW
      2. One nautical mile per hour — the standard unit of speed at sea (4) — KNOT
      3. To lead a line through a block, ring, or eye (5) — REEVE
      4. The direction (usually in degrees true) in which a current flows (3) — SET
      5. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      6. A reverse-osmosis desalinator that forces seawater through a semi-permeable membrane at high pressure to produce drinkin… (10) — WATERMAKER
      7. The main body of the vessel, excluding the rig, spars, sails, and appendages (4) — HULL

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      1. The disturbed water and trailing waves left behind a moving vessel (4) — WAKE
      2. A collective term for a jib or genoa — any sail set forward of the mast (8) — FORESAIL
      3. Any craft — sail, power, or other — used or capable of being used as a means of transport on water (6) — VESSEL
      4. To throw — usually a line (5) — HEAVE
      5. A small, heavy, triangular storm sail that replaces the mainsail on its own track or separate track in survival conditio… (7) — TRYSAIL
      6. The line of sight formed when two marks ashore line up, showing the centre of a channel or a transit bearing (5) — RANGE
      7. The spars, standing rigging, and sail plan collectively — or the act of rigging the boat for sea (3) — RIG
      8. 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.