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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
23 / AUG / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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You're looking at the 23 / 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 23 / AUG / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.
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- The underwater surface of the hull (6) — BOTTOM
- Length Waterline — the fore-and-aft length of the hull measured at the waterline; a major factor in hull speed (3) — LWL
- A large, usually closable opening in the deck or coachroof for access, ventilation, or light (5) — HATCH
- Multi-Function Display — a large chartplotter screen able to show radar, AIS, sonar, engine data, camera feeds, and char… (3) — MFD
- The vertical distance from the waterline to the deepest part of the keel — the minimum water depth the vessel needs to float (5) — DRAFT
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- To throw — usually a line (5) — HEAVE
- To adjust the tension and alignment of the standing rigging so the mast stands straight and the sails set correctly (4) — TUNE
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- The horizontal spar that extends aft from the mast and carries the foot of the mainsail (4) — BOOM
- A reverse-osmosis desalinator that forces seawater through a semi-permeable membrane at high pressure to produce drinkin… (10) — WATERMAKER
- A line on some rigs that pulls down a sliding gooseneck to tension the luff of the mainsail, performing the same job as a Cunningham (8) — DOWNHAUL
- A buoyant horseshoe-shaped sling on a floating line, deployed to trail astern during a man-overboard recovery so the cas… (9) — LIFESLING
- To propel a boat with a single oar worked side-to-side through a notch or rowlock in the transom (5) — SCULL
- The outgoing phase of the tide, when water level is falling and the flow runs seaward (3) — EBB
- A secondary anchor, smaller than the bower, carried for manoeuvring or for kedging the boat off a grounding (5) — KEDGE
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.