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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
22 / JUL / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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- To put away neatly and securely (4) — STOW
- A fabric sun awning stretched over a stainless-steel frame above the cockpit to shelter the crew from sun and light rain (6) — BIMINI
- The aerodynamic or hydrodynamic force generated by a sail or keel that drives the boat through the water (4) — LIFT
- A point of sail with the wind coming from dead astern (3) — RUN
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- The fitting (on deck or on the keel) into which the foot of the mast is stepped (8) — MASTSTEP
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- The outer edge of the deck, where the deck meets the topsides (4) — RAIL
- The direction (usually in degrees true) in which a current flows (3) — SET
- A severe knock in which the boat is blown onto her side far enough that a spreader dips into the water (9) — KNOCKDOWN
- 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
- A collective term for a jib or genoa — any sail set forward of the mast (8) — FORESAIL
- To adjust the tension and alignment of the standing rigging so the mast stands straight and the sails set correctly (4) — TUNE
- A vessel filled with water but still floating (7) — SWAMPED
- The flat — or nearly flat — after face of the stern (7) — TRANSOM
- 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
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.