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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
27 / JUL / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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- The side or direction away from the wind — where the wind is blowing toward (7) — LEEWARD
- The left side of the boat when facing forward (4) — PORT
- A magnetic instrument indicating the vessel's heading relative to the Earth's magnetic field (7) — COMPASS
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- A wire or rope rigged on stanchions around the edge of the deck to help prevent crew from falling overboard (8) — LIFELINE
- The fore-and-aft tilt of the mast relative to vertical (4) — RAKE
- The upper corner of a sail; also, the marine toilet (4) — HEAD
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- To bind the strands at the end of a rope with a tight wrapping of twine to prevent unravelling (4) — WHIP
- A large, usually closable opening in the deck or coachroof for access, ventilation, or light (5) — HATCH
- A spar extending forward of the stem (often retractable on modern cruisers) to which an asymmetric spinnaker, code zero,… (8) — BOWSPRIT
- The principal sail set on the (main) mast of a sloop, cutter, ketch, or yawl (8) — MAINSAIL
- Any pole that supports a sail — mast, boom, gaff, sprit, yard, whisker pole, or spinnaker pole (4) — SPAR
- A two- (or more) masted rig in which the foremast is equal to or shorter than the mainmast (8) — SCHOONER
- Length Overall — the maximum fore-and-aft hull length, excluding bowsprits and pulpits unless specifically included (3) — LOA
- The aft edge of a fore-and-aft sail (5) — LEECH
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.