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

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      You're looking at the 11 / 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 11 / SEP / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      1. A single-masted rig with a mainsail and a single headsail — the commonest modern configuration (5) — SLOOP
      2. The upper corner of a sail; also, the marine toilet (4) — HEAD
      3. Personal Locator Beacon — a small 406 MHz satellite distress beacon registered to an individual (not a vessel), carried… (3) — PLB
      4. The disturbed water and trailing waves left behind a moving vessel (4) — WAKE
      5. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      6. Digital Selective Calling — a feature of modern VHF and SSB radios that allows a pre-formatted digital distress alert, i… (3) — DSC
      7. The direction (usually in degrees true) in which a current flows (3) — SET
      8. To hire a vessel for a period — either bareboat (skipper and crew provided by hirer) or crewed (7) — CHARTER

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      1. An athwartships interior wall that stiffens the hull and subdivides the internal space (8) — BULKHEAD
      2. The grooved wheel inside a block or at the head of a mast over which a line runs (6) — SHEAVE
      3. The forward end of the vessel (3) — BOW
      4. To make fast — attaching a sail to a spar or stay, or tying a line to a sail (4) — BEND
      5. A position — latitude and longitude — stored in a GPS or chartplotter and used as a step in a planned route (8) — WAYPOINT
      6. A floating aid to navigation, anchored in position to mark channels, dangers, or stations (4) — BUOY
      7. A fixed vertical fin ahead of the rudder, protecting and supporting it (4) — SKEG

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