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

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      You're looking at the 30 / 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 30 / SEP / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.

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      1. Horizontal movement of water driven by tide, wind, river flow, or ocean circulation (7) — CURRENT
      2. A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
      3. In the IALA Region B buoyage system (USA, parts of the Americas, Japan, Korea, Philippines), an odd-numbered green cylin… (3) — CAN
      4. Length Waterline — the fore-and-aft length of the hull measured at the waterline; a major factor in hull speed (3) — LWL
      5. The periodic vertical rise and fall of the sea surface caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun (4) — TIDE
      6. A two-masted rig whose shorter mizzen mast stands forward of the rudder post and is shorter than the main mast (5) — KETCH

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      1. The part of the boat's side close to the stern — port quarter and starboard quarter (7) — QUARTER
      2. To make fast — attaching a sail to a spar or stay, or tying a line to a sail (4) — BEND
      3. A piece of standing rigging supporting a mast in the fore-and-aft direction (4) — STAY
      4. The fore-and-aft tilt of the mast relative to vertical (4) — RAKE
      5. Outside the rail, or toward or beyond the sides of the boat (8) — OUTBOARD
      6. To bind or secure with line or webbing (4) — LASH
      7. The recessed working area of the deck where the helm, sheets, and instruments are usually grouped (7) — COCKPIT
      8. A classic knot that forms a secure, non-slipping loop and can still be untied after heavy loading (7) — BOWLINE
      9. A traditional Arabian sailing craft, typically single- or twin-masted and carrying lateen sails, still seen throughout t… (4) — DHOW

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