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

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      You're looking at the 15 / 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 15 / AUG / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      Yesterday's clues & answers — 14 / AUG / 2026

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

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      1. A magnetic instrument indicating the vessel's heading relative to the Earth's magnetic field (7) — COMPASS
      2. One nautical mile per hour — the standard unit of speed at sea (4) — KNOT
      3. A pyrotechnic distress signal — handheld red flares are for close-range visibility, parachute red flares for long-range,… (5) — FLARE
      4. To haul a sail to windward so the wind fills the wrong side, stopping the boat or driving it astern (4) — BACK
      5. Global Positioning System — the US satellite constellation whose signals let a receiver compute its position, heading, a… (3) — GPS
      6. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      7. The wires (standing rigging) and lines (running rigging) supporting and controlling the spars and sails (7) — RIGGING
      8. The vertical spar — originally timber, today commonly aluminium or carbon — from which the mainsail is hoisted (4) — MAST

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      1. A deck fitting — most commonly a horned or jam cleat — designed to hold a line under load (5) — CLEAT
      2. A U-shaped metal fitting closed by a threaded pin (D-shackle, bow shackle, snap shackle etc (7) — SHACKLE
      3. The outer sides of the hull between the waterline and the deck (8) — TOPSIDES
      4. The outgoing phase of the tide, when water level is falling and the flow runs seaward (3) — EBB
      5. Electronic Chart Display and Information System — a type-approved electronic charting system accepted as the primary mea… (5) — ECDIS
      6. To lay a rope down in neat, uniform loops for storage, or the stored loops themselves (4) — COIL
      7. Global Maritime Distress and Safety System — the integrated network of satellite and terrestrial radio services (VHF-DSC… (5) — GMDSS

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