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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
10 / SEP / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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You're looking at the 10 / 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 10 / SEP / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.
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Yesterday's clues & answers — 09 / SEP / 2026
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- United States Coast Guard — the US federal service responsible for maritime safety, security, and SAR (4) — USCG
- A mooring line used to secure the vessel to a dock, pontoon, or piling (8) — DOCKLINE
- A line used to trim a sail — e (5) — SHEET
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- Toward the wind's source (6) — UPWIND
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- The forwardmost structural member of the hull — the bow's leading edge (4) — STEM
- A large headsail whose clew overlaps the mast, giving extra upwind drive compared with a working jib (5) — GENOA
- Standing rigging running from the bow (or stemhead) up to the mast, to which the foresail is hanked or furled (8) — FORESTAY
- 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
- The sideways lean of the hull caused by wind pressure on the sails (4) — HEEL
- To throw — usually a line (5) — HEAVE
- The forward end of the vessel (3) — BOW
- The mostly horizontal upper surface of the hull (4) — DECK
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.