23 / OCT / 2026 · skippercheck.net/crossword
⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
23 / OCT / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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You're looking at the 23 / 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 23 / OCT / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.
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- Length Waterline — the fore-and-aft length of the hull measured at the waterline; a major factor in hull speed (3) — LWL
- A microwave ranging system that bounces a rotating pulse off targets and displays their bearing and range; modern broadb… (5) — RADAR
- To hold, and keep tension on, the free end of a line while a winch grinder takes turns on the drum (4) — TAIL
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- A piston or snap hook used to attach the luff of a foresail at intervals along the forestay (4) — HANK
- The underwater surface of the hull (6) — BOTTOM
- The upward force exerted by water on a submerged body — the property that lets an object float (8) — BUOYANCY
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- The aerodynamic or hydrodynamic force generated by a sail or keel that drives the boat through the water (4) — LIFT
- A piece of standing rigging running from a chainplate to the upper mast or spreader tip, supporting the mast laterally (6) — SHROUD
- A fabric and framework spray hood forward of the cockpit that shelters the crew from wind and spray (6) — DODGER
- The generic term at sea for any rope in use (4) — LINE
- The small triangular headsail set forward of the mast, tacked to the stemhead and hanked, bolted, or furled onto the forestay (3) — JIB
- A piece of standing rigging running from the masthead (or partway down) to the stern, resisting the forward pull of the headsail (8) — BACKSTAY
- In the IALA Region B buoyage system (USA, parts of the Americas, Japan, Korea, Philippines), an odd-numbered green cylin… (3) — CAN
- A quay, pontoon, or berth where a vessel ties up — and also the act of bringing her alongside (4) — DOCK
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.