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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
10 / AUG / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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You're looking at the 10 / 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 10 / AUG / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.
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Yesterday's clues & answers — 09 / AUG / 2026
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- In the water behind the vessel, or moving backwards (6) — ASTERN
- A sail that has been trimmed so the wind pushes against the reverse side of the cloth, filling it from behind (5) — ABACK
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- The aft edge of a fore-and-aft sail (5) — LEECH
- The outer edge of the deck, where the deck meets the topsides (4) — RAIL
- A patch of shallow water, often sand or mud, representing a hazard (5) — SHOAL
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- Weight — usually carried low in the keel — that lowers the centre of gravity and gives the boat stability and righting moment (7) — BALLAST
- Forward, or toward the bow (4) — FORE
- A multihull with two parallel hulls connected by a deck, bridgedeck, or trampoline (9) — CATAMARAN
- A tapered hardwood or metal spike used to open the strands of a rope when splicing (3) — FID
- The outgoing phase of the tide, when water level is falling and the flow runs seaward (3) — EBB
- 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
- In the IALA Region B buoyage system (USA, parts of the Americas, Japan, Korea, Philippines), an odd-numbered green cylin… (3) — CAN
- Short, steep, broken waves — typically caused by wind over a shallow or restricted fetch (4) — CHOP
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.