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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
19 / AUG / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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- The control line attached to the clew of the mainsail, tensioning the foot along the boom (7) — OUTHAUL
- The leading edge of a sail (4) — LUFF
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- A vessel filled with water but still floating (7) — SWAMPED
- A deck fitting — most commonly a horned or jam cleat — designed to hold a line under load (5) — CLEAT
- To interpose a sail or other object between the wind and another sail so the downwind sail is starved of breeze (7) — BLANKET
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- The upward force exerted by water on a submerged body — the property that lets an object float (8) — BUOYANCY
- A permanent ground tackle — anchor, chain, and buoy — to which a vessel can secure instead of deploying her own anchor (7) — MOORING
- A sail drawing properly, filled with wind and not luffing (4) — FULL
- A piece of standing rigging running from a chainplate to the upper mast or spreader tip, supporting the mast laterally (6) — SHROUD
- The whole line-and-chain assembly linking the anchor to the boat (4) — RODE
- The disturbed water and trailing waves left behind a moving vessel (4) — WAKE
- Search and Rescue Transponder — an emergency device that, when triggered by an X-band radar pulse, replies with a 12-dot… (4) — SART
- The outgoing phase of the tide, when water level is falling and the flow runs seaward (3) — EBB
- In the IALA Region B buoyage system (USA, parts of the Americas, Japan, Korea, Philippines), an odd-numbered green cylin… (3) — CAN
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.