25 / OCT / 2026 · skippercheck.net/crossword
⚓ Daily Maritime Crossword
25 / OCT / 2026 — archive puzzle. The world's first maritime-only crossword — 259-term nautical corpus.
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You're looking at the 25 / 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 25 / OCT / 2026, so your time and hint count still rank against the global leaderboard.
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- A deck fitting — most commonly a horned or jam cleat — designed to hold a line under load (5) — CLEAT
- Lying on a line perpendicular to the vessel's centerline — directly off her side (5) — ABEAM
- A tapered hardwood or metal spike used to open the strands of a rope when splicing (3) — FID
- The main body of the vessel, excluding the rig, spars, sails, and appendages (4) — HULL
- A pivoting keel that can be raised into a trunk to reduce draft and lowered to resist leeway (11) — CENTERBOARD
- The greatest width of the vessel measured at its widest point (4) — BEAM
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- The curved extension of a sail's area aft of a straight line drawn from head to clew (5) — ROACH
- Length Overall — the maximum fore-and-aft hull length, excluding bowsprits and pulpits unless specifically included (3) — LOA
- To make fast — attaching a sail to a spar or stay, or tying a line to a sail (4) — BEND
- The fore-and-aft tilt of the mast relative to vertical (4) — RAKE
- Located inside the rail or within the hull of the boat (7) — INBOARD
- The sideways slippage of the hull to leeward caused by the sail's horizontal force component (6) — LEEWAY
- Global Maritime Distress and Safety System — the integrated network of satellite and terrestrial radio services (VHF-DSC… (5) — GMDSS
- A horizontal handle (or extension) fixed to the rudder stock, used to steer a smaller yacht (6) — TILLER
- The spars, standing rigging, and sail plan collectively — or the act of rigging the boat for sea (3) — RIG
Great for studying COLREGs, VHF procedure, navigation marks, rigging and seamanship vocabulary — or just as a spoiler if you got stuck.