Daily Maritime Crossword — 13 / SEP / 2026 | SkipperCheck
SkipperCheck logo
Daily Maritime Crossword
13 / SEP / 2026 · skippercheck.net/crossword
🧩 Daily puzzle

⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword

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

← Sep 12 Sep 14 → 📚 Archive 🔑 Log in to join leaderboard · – words in grid
00:00

Across

    Down

      🎉 Complete!

      Time: · Hints used: 0
      Share: 🐦 Twitter/X 📘 Facebook 💬 WhatsApp 📋 Copy text
      Loading maritime corpus…

      Finished Sunday's puzzle? Try Saturday's previous too

      You're looking at the 13 / 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 13 / SEP / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

      If you solved this Sunday grid, don't stop — 12 / SEP / 2026's puzzle is waiting with a fresh layout from the same nautical vocabulary. Warning: some clues lean on COLREGs Rule numbers and IALA buoyage — brush up if you're rusty.

      Browse the full crossword archive to replay every past puzzle, or print this one to A4 using the 🖨️ Print button above — solutions are printed upside-down at the bottom of the page, newspaper-style.

      Yesterday's clues & answers — 12 / SEP / 2026

      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.

      Across

      1. The underwater surface of the hull (6) — BOTTOM
      2. A deck-mounted fairlead, often smoothed or rollered, through which docklines and anchor rode are led cleanly (5) — CHOCK
      3. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      4. A fitting — often a block, ring, or slotted plate — that redirects a line with minimum friction and chafe (8) — FAIRLEAD
      5. A point of sail with the wind coming from dead astern (3) — RUN
      6. In the water behind the vessel, or moving backwards (6) — ASTERN

      Down

      1. The forward end of the vessel (3) — BOW
      2. The marine term for a pulley — a sheave in a housing through which a line runs (5) — BLOCK
      3. The floor of a cockpit or cabin (4) — SOLE
      4. A horizontal strut projecting from the mast that redirects the shrouds outboard, increasing the staying angle and latera… (8) — SPREADER
      5. Global Maritime Distress and Safety System — the integrated network of satellite and terrestrial radio services (VHF-DSC… (5) — GMDSS
      6. A line used to hoist, hold up, or lower a sail (7) — HALYARD
      7. A sail drawing properly, filled with wind and not luffing (4) — FULL
      8. In the IALA Region B buoyage system (USA, parts of the Americas, Japan, Korea, Philippines), an odd-numbered green cylin… (3) — CAN
      9. In the IALA Region B system, a red even-numbered conical buoy marking the starboard side of a channel when entering from… (3) — NUN

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