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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
12 / AUG / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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- A fabric sun awning stretched over a stainless-steel frame above the cockpit to shelter the crew from sun and light rain (6) — BIMINI
- The principal sail set on the (main) mast of a sloop, cutter, ketch, or yawl (8) — MAINSAIL
- To bind the strands at the end of a rope with a tight wrapping of twine to prevent unravelling (4) — WHIP
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- Toward, at, or behind the stern (3) — AFT
- Away from land, or out of sight of it (8) — OFFSHORE
- The condition of a vessel whose keel or hull is in contact with the seabed (7) — AGROUND
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- Maritime Mobile Service Identity — a unique nine-digit number issued to each DSC-VHF/HF radio, EPIRB, or AIS transponder… (4) — MMSI
- The small sail set on the mizzenmast of a ketch or yawl (6) — MIZZEN
- Length Waterline — the fore-and-aft length of the hull measured at the waterline; a major factor in hull speed (3) — LWL
- A fixed vertical fin ahead of the rudder, protecting and supporting it (4) — SKEG
- The vertical distance from the waterline to the deepest part of the keel — the minimum water depth the vessel needs to float (5) — DRAFT
- The angular direction of one object from another, expressed in compass degrees (7) — BEARING
- Length Overall — the maximum fore-and-aft hull length, excluding bowsprits and pulpits unless specifically included (3) — LOA
- Search and Rescue Transponder — an emergency device that, when triggered by an X-band radar pulse, replies with a 12-dot… (4) — SART
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.