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

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      You're looking at the 06 / SEP / 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 06 / SEP / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      Newspaper-style: today's page publishes the full solution to Saturday's puzzle (15 maritime terms). Today's answers stay hidden until tomorrow — play the grid above, or replay Saturday's grid.

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      1. A secondary anchor, smaller than the bower, carried for manoeuvring or for kedging the boat off a grounding (5) — KEDGE
      2. The outer edge of the deck, where the deck meets the topsides (4) — RAIL
      3. The direction, expressed in degrees, in which the vessel is being steered (6) — COURSE
      4. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      5. A low-Earth-orbit satellite broadband system widely adopted on cruising and commercial vessels since the mid-2020s for h… (8) — STARLINK
      6. Global Positioning System — the US satellite constellation whose signals let a receiver compute its position, heading, a… (3) — GPS
      7. See boom vang — the tackle or rigid strut that pulls the boom down to control mainsail twist (4) — VANG
      8. The disturbed water and trailing waves left behind a moving vessel (4) — WAKE

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      1. See jibe — a turn in which the stern passes through the wind (4) — GYBE
      2. The shorter mast stepped aft of the mainmast on a ketch or yawl (10) — MIZZENMAST
      3. A patch of shallow water, often sand or mud, representing a hazard (5) — SHOAL
      4. A tapered hardwood or metal spike used to open the strands of a rope when splicing (3) — FID
      5. To put away neatly and securely (4) — STOW
      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

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