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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
28 / AUG / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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- See jibe — a turn in which the stern passes through the wind (4) — GYBE
- Digital Selective Calling — a feature of modern VHF and SSB radios that allows a pre-formatted digital distress alert, i… (3) — DSC
- The periodic vertical rise and fall of the sea surface caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun (4) — TIDE
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- Global Positioning System — the US satellite constellation whose signals let a receiver compute its position, heading, a… (3) — GPS
- A fast-moving, short-lived storm cell producing sudden strong winds and often heavy rain (6) — SQUALL
- An electronic display that overlays the vessel's GPS position on digital charts, and often integrates AIS, radar, sonar,… (12) — CHARTPLOTTER
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- A windshift in which the wind moves forward on the boat, forcing the helm to bear away or the sheets to be eased (6) — HEADED
- The aft lower corner of a fore-and-aft sail; on a mainsail it is tensioned by the outhaul, on a jib by the sheets (4) — CLEW
- An electronic self-steering system that uses a heading or GPS input to drive a hydraulic ram, linear drive, or wheel mot… (9) — AUTOPILOT
- The vertical distance from the waterline to the deepest part of the keel — the minimum water depth the vessel needs to float (5) — DRAFT
- Automatic Radar Plotting Aid — radar software that tracks targets automatically and computes CPA (closest point of appro… (4) — ARPA
- Differential GPS — a GPS that uses correction signals from ground or satellite-based reference stations to refine accura… (4) — DGPS
- Any pole that supports a sail — mast, boom, gaff, sprit, yard, whisker pole, or spinnaker pole (4) — SPAR
- Toward, at, or behind the stern (3) — AFT
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.