19 / JUL / 2026 · skippercheck.net/crossword
⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
19 / JUL / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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You're looking at the 19 / 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 19 / JUL / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.
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Yesterday's clues & answers — 18 / JUL / 2026
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- United States Coast Guard — the US federal service responsible for maritime safety, security, and SAR (4) — USCG
- To bind the strands at the end of a rope with a tight wrapping of twine to prevent unravelling (4) — WHIP
- Global Navigation Satellite System — the umbrella term covering all satellite positioning constellations: GPS (USA), GLO… (4) — GNSS
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- A horizontal handle (or extension) fixed to the rudder stock, used to steer a smaller yacht (6) — TILLER
- The floor of a cockpit or cabin (4) — SOLE
- Forward movement through the water (7) — HEADWAY
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- (Pronounced 'gunnel') The top edge of the hull where deck meets topsides (7) — GUNWALE
- A secondary anchor, smaller than the bower, carried for manoeuvring or for kedging the boat off a grounding (5) — KEDGE
- The side or direction away from the wind — where the wind is blowing toward (7) — LEEWARD
- The forwardmost structural member of the hull — the bow's leading edge (4) — STEM
- Forward, or toward the bow (4) — FORE
- To hold, and keep tension on, the free end of a line while a winch grinder takes turns on the drum (4) — TAIL
- A piece of standing rigging supporting a mast in the fore-and-aft direction (4) — STAY
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.