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

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      You're looking at the 18 / JUL / 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 18 / JUL / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      Yesterday's clues & answers — 17 / JUL / 2026

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      1. The taller (main) mast on a vessel with more than one mast (8) — MAINMAST
      2. A point of sail with the wind coming from dead astern (3) — RUN
      3. The sideways lean of the hull caused by wind pressure on the sails (4) — HEEL
      4. To hold, and keep tension on, the free end of a line while a winch grinder takes turns on the drum (4) — TAIL
      5. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      6. The floor of a cockpit or cabin (4) — SOLE
      7. The enclosed interior accommodation of the vessel (5) — CABIN
      8. The fitting (on deck or on the keel) into which the foot of the mast is stepped (8) — MASTSTEP

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      1. Running across the vessel from one side to the other, at right angles to the fore-and-aft line (12) — ATHWARTSHIPS
      2. To adjust a sail's controls to produce optimum drive and lift (4) — TRIM
      3. In the IALA Region B system, a red even-numbered conical buoy marking the starboard side of a channel when entering from… (3) — NUN
      4. To haul a sail to windward so the wind fills the wrong side, stopping the boat or driving it astern (4) — BACK
      5. A patch of shallow water, often sand or mud, representing a hazard (5) — SHOAL
      6. A brand of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibre; as strong as steel wire but a fraction of the weight… (7) — DYNEEMA
      7. The direction (usually in degrees true) in which a current flows (3) — SET

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