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

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      You're looking at the 29 / 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 29 / JUL / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      1. A raised lip around the edge of the cockpit or a hatch, designed to keep out water (7) — COAMING
      2. A nautical map showing coastlines, depths, aids to navigation, and hazards (5) — CHART
      3. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      4. A navigable stretch of water — usually marked with buoyage — where depth is sufficient for safe passage (7) — CHANNEL
      5. Located inside the rail or within the hull of the boat (7) — INBOARD
      6. The aft end of the vessel (5) — STERN

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      1. The recessed working area of the deck where the helm, sheets, and instruments are usually grouped (7) — COCKPIT
      2. Global Positioning System — the US satellite constellation whose signals let a receiver compute its position, heading, a… (3) — GPS
      3. A reinforced ring — usually brass or stainless — set into a sail or cover to accept a line or fastening (7) — GROMMET
      4. The aerodynamic or hydrodynamic force generated by a sail or keel that drives the boat through the water (4) — LIFT
      5. Any pole that supports a sail — mast, boom, gaff, sprit, yard, whisker pole, or spinnaker pole (4) — SPAR
      6. A two- (or more) masted rig in which the foremast is equal to or shorter than the mainmast (8) — SCHOONER
      7. The whole line-and-chain assembly linking the anchor to the boat (4) — RODE
      8. Search and Rescue Transponder — an emergency device that, when triggered by an X-band radar pulse, replies with a 12-dot… (4) — SART
      9. In the IALA Region B system, a red even-numbered conical buoy marking the starboard side of a channel when entering from… (3) — NUN

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