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30 / 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 — 29 / 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.

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      1. The generic term at sea for any rope in use (4) — LINE
      2. Global Navigation Satellite System — the umbrella term covering all satellite positioning constellations: GPS (USA), GLO… (4) — GNSS
      3. To lay a rope down in neat, uniform loops for storage, or the stored loops themselves (4) — COIL
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. To haul a sail to windward so the wind fills the wrong side, stopping the boat or driving it astern (4) — BACK
      6. In the IALA Region B system, a red even-numbered conical buoy marking the starboard side of a channel when entering from… (3) — NUN
      7. The aft lower corner of a fore-and-aft sail; on a mainsail it is tensioned by the outhaul, on a jib by the sheets (4) — CLEW

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      1. To roll or gather up a sail so it stows neatly on a boom, stay, or inside a spar (4) — FURL
      2. Working to windward by sailing a succession of close-hauled tacks (7) — BEATING
      3. The articulated fitting that joins the forward end of the boom to the mast, allowing the boom to swing and pivot (9) — GOOSENECK
      4. A multihull with two parallel hulls connected by a deck, bridgedeck, or trampoline (9) — CATAMARAN
      5. Digital Selective Calling — a feature of modern VHF and SSB radios that allows a pre-formatted digital distress alert, i… (3) — DSC
      6. A classic knot that forms a secure, non-slipping loop and can still be untied after heavy loading (7) — BOWLINE
      7. The outer edge of the deck, where the deck meets the topsides (4) — RAIL
      8. To make fast — attaching a sail to a spar or stay, or tying a line to a sail (4) — BEND

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