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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
18 / SEP / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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- Toward the bow. (7) — FORWARD
- A large headsail whose clew overlaps the mast, giving extra upwind drive compared with a working jib (5) — GENOA
- A small boat, sailed or rowed, used for pleasure or as a yacht's tender (6) — DINGHY
- A fabric sun awning stretched over a stainless-steel frame above the cockpit to shelter the crew from sun and light rain (6) — BIMINI
- A fixed vertical fin ahead of the rudder, protecting and supporting it (4) — SKEG
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- At or toward the middle of the vessel, whether fore-and-aft or athwartships (9) — AMIDSHIPS
- The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (1972, amended) — the body of rules governing rights of w… (7) — COLREGS
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- The spars, standing rigging, and sail plan collectively — or the act of rigging the boat for sea (3) — RIG
- Afloat with no means of propulsion or attachment, carried along by wind, current, or tide (6) — ADRIFT
- The periodic vertical rise and fall of the sea surface caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun (4) — TIDE
- A single-masted rig with a mainsail and a single headsail — the commonest modern configuration (5) — SLOOP
- The mostly horizontal upper surface of the hull (4) — DECK
- Toward, at, or behind the stern (3) — AFT
- Digital Selective Calling — a feature of modern VHF and SSB radios that allows a pre-formatted digital distress alert, i… (3) — DSC
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