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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
12 / SEP / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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You're looking at the 12 / 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 12 / SEP / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.
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- One nautical mile per hour — the standard unit of speed at sea (4) — KNOT
- An electronic device that converts the boat's 12/24 V DC supply into 120/230 V AC mains for running domestic appliances… (8) — INVERTER
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- The fitting (on deck or on the keel) into which the foot of the mast is stepped (8) — MASTSTEP
- Toward, at, or behind the stern (3) — AFT
- A single-masted rig with a mainsail and a single headsail — the commonest modern configuration (5) — SLOOP
- To adjust a sail's controls to produce optimum drive and lift (4) — TRIM
- The incoming phase of the tide, when water level is rising and the flow runs landward (5) — FLOOD
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- The periodic vertical rise and fall of the sea surface caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun (4) — TIDE
- The lowest internal part of the hull, where water inevitably drains and collects (5) — BILGE
- A line on some rigs that pulls down a sliding gooseneck to tension the luff of the mainsail, performing the same job as a Cunningham (8) — DOWNHAUL
- To turn the bow through the eye of the wind so the boat changes from one close-hauled course to the other (4) — TACK
- A collective term for a jib or genoa — any sail set forward of the mast (8) — FORESAIL
- The vertical distance from the waterline to the deepest part of the keel — the minimum water depth the vessel needs to float (5) — DRAFT
- The direction (usually in degrees true) in which a current flows (3) — SET
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.