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

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      You're looking at the 25 / 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 25 / AUG / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      1. A small reinforcing plate built into the head of a sail to spread halyard load (9) — HEADBOARD
      2. Global Navigation Satellite System — the umbrella term covering all satellite positioning constellations: GPS (USA), GLO… (4) — GNSS
      3. Search and Rescue Transponder — an emergency device that, when triggered by an X-band radar pulse, replies with a 12-dot… (4) — SART
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. A reverse-osmosis desalinator that forces seawater through a semi-permeable membrane at high pressure to produce drinkin… (10) — WATERMAKER
      6. A floating aid to navigation, anchored in position to mark channels, dangers, or stations (4) — BUOY
      7. The periodic vertical rise and fall of the sea surface caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun (4) — TIDE

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      1. Any loop or curve formed in a rope between its two ends (5) — BIGHT
      2. The top end of the mast, often carrying a wind instrument, anchor light, VHF antenna, and sheave for the main halyard (8) — MASTHEAD
      3. To make fast — attaching a sail to a spar or stay, or tying a line to a sail (4) — BEND
      4. A deck-mounted fairlead, often smoothed or rollered, through which docklines and anchor rode are led cleanly (5) — CHOCK
      5. To bind the strands at the end of a rope with a tight wrapping of twine to prevent unravelling (4) — WHIP
      6. Maritime Mobile Service Identity — a unique nine-digit number issued to each DSC-VHF/HF radio, EPIRB, or AIS transponder… (4) — MMSI
      7. The outgoing phase of the tide, when water level is falling and the flow runs seaward (3) — EBB
      8. The forward end of the vessel (3) — BOW

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