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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
14 / AUG / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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- Toward, at, or behind the stern (3) — AFT
- The curved extension of a sail's area aft of a straight line drawn from head to clew (5) — ROACH
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- The fore-and-aft tilt of the mast relative to vertical (4) — RAKE
- Short, steep, broken waves — typically caused by wind over a shallow or restricted fetch (4) — CHOP
- To hold, and keep tension on, the free end of a line while a winch grinder takes turns on the drum (4) — TAIL
- The weighted vertical fin beneath the hull that resists leeway and, through its ballast, keeps the boat upright; modern… (4) — KEEL
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- The flat — or nearly flat — after face of the stern (7) — TRANSOM
- The articulated fitting that joins the forward end of the boom to the mast, allowing the boom to swing and pivot (9) — GOOSENECK
- The sideways lean of the hull caused by wind pressure on the sails (4) — HEEL
- The principal sail set on the (main) mast of a sloop, cutter, ketch, or yawl (8) — MAINSAIL
- To turn the bow through the eye of the wind so the boat changes from one close-hauled course to the other (4) — TACK
- To roll or gather up a sail so it stows neatly on a boom, stay, or inside a spar (4) — FURL
- A two-masted rig whose shorter mizzen mast stands forward of the rudder post and is shorter than the main mast (5) — KETCH
- A quay, pontoon, or berth where a vessel ties up — and also the act of bringing her alongside (4) — DOCK
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