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

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      You're looking at the 18 / 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 18 / AUG / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      1. (Also 'gybe') To change tack by turning the stern through the wind, allowing the mainsail and boom to swing across (4) — JIBE
      2. The outgoing phase of the tide, when water level is falling and the flow runs seaward (3) — EBB
      3. A horizontal handle (or extension) fixed to the rudder stock, used to steer a smaller yacht (6) — TILLER
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. A deck fitting — most commonly a horned or jam cleat — designed to hold a line under load (5) — CLEAT
      6. The outer edge of the deck, where the deck meets the topsides (4) — RAIL
      7. Away from land, or out of sight of it (8) — OFFSHORE

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      1. See jibe — a turn in which the stern passes through the wind (4) — GYBE
      2. A length of rope sewn inside the foot or luff of a sail so the sail can be slid into a groove on the boom or mast (8) — BOLTROPE
      3. To make fast — attaching a sail to a spar or stay, or tying a line to a sail (4) — BEND
      4. A piece of standing rigging running from the masthead (or partway down) to the stern, resisting the forward pull of the headsail (8) — BACKSTAY
      5. To turn the bow through the eye of the wind so the boat changes from one close-hauled course to the other (4) — TACK
      6. In the IALA Region B system, a red even-numbered conical buoy marking the starboard side of a channel when entering from… (3) — NUN
      7. Automatic Identification System — a VHF-based transponder network that continuously broadcasts a vessel's identity, posi… (3) — AIS
      8. 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.