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

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      You're looking at the 03 / AUG / 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 03 / AUG / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

      If you solved this Monday grid, don't stop — 02 / AUG / 2026's puzzle is waiting with a fresh layout from the same nautical vocabulary. Warning: some clues lean on COLREGs Rule numbers and IALA buoyage — brush up if you're rusty.

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      Yesterday's clues & answers — 02 / AUG / 2026

      Newspaper-style: today's page publishes the full solution to Sunday's puzzle (15 maritime terms). Today's answers stay hidden until tomorrow — play the grid above, or replay Sunday's grid.

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      1. A piston or snap hook used to attach the luff of a foresail at intervals along the forestay (4) — HANK
      2. Away from land, or out of sight of it (8) — OFFSHORE
      3. Personal Locator Beacon — a small 406 MHz satellite distress beacon registered to an individual (not a vessel), carried… (3) — PLB
      4. Differential GPS — a GPS that uses correction signals from ground or satellite-based reference stations to refine accura… (4) — DGPS
      5. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      6. The angular direction of one object from another, expressed in compass degrees (7) — BEARING
      7. The vertical distance from the waterline to the deck edge (9) — FREEBOARD

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      1. Toward, at, or behind the stern (3) — AFT
      2. Length Overall — the maximum fore-and-aft hull length, excluding bowsprits and pulpits unless specifically included (3) — LOA
      3. The sideways lean of the hull caused by wind pressure on the sails (4) — HEEL
      4. Sailing the boat entirely alone (12) — SINGLEHANDED
      5. A U-shaped metal fitting closed by a threaded pin (D-shackle, bow shackle, snap shackle etc (7) — SHACKLE
      6. To sail close to the wind (5) — POINT
      7. Everyone aboard besides the skipper who helps sail and run the boat (4) — CREW
      8. To remove water from inside the vessel, traditionally with a bucket or scoop (4) — BAIL

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