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⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
21 / SEP / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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You're looking at the 21 / 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 21 / SEP / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.
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- The floor of a cockpit or cabin (4) — SOLE
- The aft edge of a fore-and-aft sail (5) — LEECH
- A tapered hardwood or metal spike used to open the strands of a rope when splicing (3) — FID
- The generic term at sea for any rope in use (4) — LINE
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- Personal Locator Beacon — a small 406 MHz satellite distress beacon registered to an individual (not a vessel), carried… (3) — PLB
- Toward, at, or behind the stern (3) — AFT
- To put away neatly and securely (4) — STOW
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- The weighted vertical fin beneath the hull that resists leeway and, through its ballast, keeps the boat upright; modern… (4) — KEEL
- Away from land, or out of sight of it (8) — OFFSHORE
- A line rigged through a cringle a short way above the tack of the mainsail and pulled down to increase luff tension, fla… (10) — CUNNINGHAM
- On, onto, or inside the vessel (6) — ABOARD
- A fast-moving, short-lived storm cell producing sudden strong winds and often heavy rain (6) — SQUALL
- The ratio between the length of anchor rode paid out and the depth of water (plus bow height), e (5) — SCOPE
- The forward end of the vessel (3) — BOW
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.