13 / OCT / 2026 · skippercheck.net/crossword
⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
13 / OCT / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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You're looking at the 13 / OCT / 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 / OCT / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.
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- Toward, at, or behind the stern (3) — AFT
- Heeling excessively because the boat is carrying too much sail for the wind strength (11) — OVERPOWERED
- A horizontal strut projecting from the mast that redirects the shrouds outboard, increasing the staying angle and latera… (8) — SPREADER
- Length Waterline — the fore-and-aft length of the hull measured at the waterline; a major factor in hull speed (3) — LWL
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- The forwardmost structural member of the hull — the bow's leading edge (4) — STEM
- A line used to trim a sail — e (5) — SHEET
- Automatic Radar Plotting Aid — radar software that tracks targets automatically and computes CPA (closest point of appro… (4) — ARPA
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- The outer sides of the hull between the waterline and the deck (8) — TOPSIDES
- Any space inside the vessel that is beneath the deck (5) — BELOW
- The outgoing phase of the tide, when water level is falling and the flow runs seaward (3) — EBB
- To adjust a sail's controls to produce optimum drive and lift (4) — TRIM
- The fore-and-aft tilt of the mast relative to vertical (4) — RAKE
- Digital Selective Calling — a feature of modern VHF and SSB radios that allows a pre-formatted digital distress alert, i… (3) — DSC
- Short, steep, broken waves — typically caused by wind over a shallow or restricted fetch (4) — CHOP
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.