Lowtide Across


1 Snap hooks sewn to the luff of a sail


4 Joined the ends of two lines 10 Lithium-___ battery 11 British, abbr. 12 Mar iner who operates sailboats


13 Island that US citizens cannot visit


14 Toward the stern 15 It steers the ship on a preset course


17 ____ bottom, shape of a hull sometimes


18 Description of a gale between 47 and 54 miles per hour


19 20 21 22 24 27


19 Center of a storm 21 Milliampere, for short 23 Getting loose from 25 Sudden rise, in a wave 27 Small boat used to ferry passengers and small cargo between ship and shore


32


28 Windy 31 _____ north


25 26 28 29 31 33


32 Message 33 Augusta’s state, for short 34 Manage


Down


1 All the way opposite to the wind (2 words)


solution on page 60 34 30 23 1 2 3 12


Nautical Crossword 4


5 10 13 6 7 8 11 9


2 “No” on the radio 3 Channel leading to the ocean 5 Slang for submarine (2 words) 6 Goes with behold 7 It measures the degree of heeling of a vessel


14 15 16


8 ___ and flow 9 Depth of a vessel’s keel below the surface


17 18


16 Tidied up 18 Out of harm’s way 20 ___ ho ho and a bottle of rum!


21 Riverbed material 22 Field 24 “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” singer, _____ Redding


25 Hazard to navigation lying just below the surface of the water


26 Greek, for short


29 Route abbreviation 30 London continent, for short


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