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

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      You're looking at the 04 / 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 04 / AUG / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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

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      1. Digital Selective Calling — a feature of modern VHF and SSB radios that allows a pre-formatted digital distress alert, i… (3) — DSC
      2. The left side of the boat when facing forward (4) — PORT
      3. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      4. The generic term at sea for any rope in use (4) — LINE
      5. Global Navigation Satellite System — the umbrella term covering all satellite positioning constellations: GPS (USA), GLO… (4) — GNSS
      6. The steering control — tiller or wheel (4) — HELM
      7. The upper corner of a sail; also, the marine toilet (4) — HEAD

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      1. To bind the strands at the end of a rope with a tight wrapping of twine to prevent unravelling (4) — WHIP
      2. The direction (usually in degrees true) in which a current flows (3) — SET
      3. To let a sheet, halyard, or other line run out in a controlled manner (4) — EASE
      4. A microwave ranging system that bounces a rotating pulse off targets and displays their bearing and range; modern broadb… (5) — RADAR
      5. A thin strip of timber, fibreglass, or carbon inserted into a pocket along the leech of a sail to maintain its aerodynamic shape (6) — BATTEN
      6. A global satellite network (e (7) — IRIDIUM
      7. Differential GPS — a GPS that uses correction signals from ground or satellite-based reference stations to refine accura… (4) — DGPS
      8. The floor of a cockpit or cabin (4) — SOLE

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