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

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      You're looking at the 17 / 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 17 / AUG / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      1. Lying on a line perpendicular to the vessel's centerline — directly off her side (5) — ABEAM
      2. On a four-sided fore-and-aft sail, the spar that supports the sail's upper (head) edge (4) — GAFF
      3. A two-masted rig whose shorter mizzen mast stands forward of the rudder post and is shorter than the main mast (5) — KETCH
      4. A point of sail with the wind coming from dead astern (3) — RUN
      5. (Pronounced 'gunnel') The top edge of the hull where deck meets topsides (7) — GUNWALE
      6. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      7. A point of sail with the wind forward of, abeam, or aft of the beam but not dead astern — close, beam, or broad reach (5) — REACH
      8. A deck fitting — most commonly a horned or jam cleat — designed to hold a line under load (5) — CLEAT
      9. To bind the strands at the end of a rope with a tight wrapping of twine to prevent unravelling (4) — WHIP
      10. Search and Rescue Transponder — an emergency device that, when triggered by an X-band radar pulse, replies with a 12-dot… (4) — SART

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      1. Running across the vessel from one side to the other, at right angles to the fore-and-aft line (12) — ATHWARTSHIPS
      2. Tangled, jammed, or caught up (6) — FOULED
      3. A low-Earth-orbit satellite broadband system widely adopted on cruising and commercial vessels since the mid-2020s for h… (8) — STARLINK
      4. The outer edge of the deck, where the deck meets the topsides (4) — RAIL
      5. The forwardmost structural member of the hull — the bow's leading edge (4) — STEM

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