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

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      You're looking at the 11 / 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 11 / AUG / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      Yesterday's clues & answers — 10 / AUG / 2026

      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. The direction (usually in degrees true) in which a current flows (3) — SET
      2. Search and Rescue Transponder — an emergency device that, when triggered by an X-band radar pulse, replies with a 12-dot… (4) — SART
      3. The floor of a cockpit or cabin (4) — SOLE
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. The spars, standing rigging, and sail plan collectively — or the act of rigging the boat for sea (3) — RIG
      6. A reinforced ring — usually brass or stainless — set into a sail or cover to accept a line or fastening (7) — GROMMET
      7. A piston or snap hook used to attach the luff of a foresail at intervals along the forestay (4) — HANK

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      1. The part of the boat's side close to the stern — port quarter and starboard quarter (7) — QUARTER
      2. To tie down, lash, or make fast (6) — SECURE
      3. To bind or secure with line or webbing (4) — LASH
      4. The right side of the boat when facing forward (9) — STARBOARD
      5. To reduce effective sail area in strong wind by rolling, folding, or partly lowering a sail (4) — REEF
      6. A piece of standing rigging supporting a mast in the fore-and-aft direction (4) — STAY
      7. To adjust a sail's controls to produce optimum drive and lift (4) — TRIM
      8. To turn the bow through the eye of the wind so the boat changes from one close-hauled course to the other (4) — TACK

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