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

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      You're looking at the 10 / 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 10 / JUN / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      1. The periodic vertical rise and fall of the sea surface caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun (4) — TIDE
      2. The taller (main) mast on a vessel with more than one mast (8) — MAINMAST
      3. A piston or snap hook used to attach the luff of a foresail at intervals along the forestay (4) — HANK
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. A single-masted rig with a mainsail and a single headsail — the commonest modern configuration (5) — SLOOP
      6. To route a line through a block, fairlead, or similar fitting (4) — LEAD
      7. To haul a sail to windward so the wind fills the wrong side, stopping the boat or driving it astern (4) — BACK
      8. A tapered hardwood or metal spike used to open the strands of a rope when splicing (3) — FID

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      1. A point of sail with the wind forward of, abeam, or aft of the beam but not dead astern — close, beam, or broad reach (5) — REACH
      2. The vertical distance from the waterline to the deepest part of the keel — the minimum water depth the vessel needs to float (5) — DRAFT
      3. A piece of standing rigging running from the masthead (or partway down) to the stern, resisting the forward pull of the headsail (8) — BACKSTAY
      4. The compartment in the bow below deck — in cruising yachts often a cabin, in older designs a stowage void (8) — FOREPEAK
      5. A ring-shaped fitting on the transom into which a rudder's pintle pin drops, allowing the rudder to swing (7) — GUDGEON
      6. A fitting — often a block, ring, or slotted plate — that redirects a line with minimum friction and chafe (8) — FAIRLEAD
      7. A simple rig with a single mainsail stepped on an unstayed mast set well forward, with no headsail (7) — CATBOAT

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