Front Cover: Matthew Short’s Shortwave heads south during the 2009 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Photo by Howard Wright/IMAGE Professional Photography.
1. An early instrument designed to measure the time of night by means of Polaris the polar star (9)
6. A temporary crossbeam fixed to support frames of a wooden vessel while it is under construction. (5)
9. Places a ship at anchorage with two anchors down at her bows, and the ship between them. (5)
10. 32nd President of the United States; elected four times – led country during World War II (9)
11. Situation when the ship’s anchor is weighed and she moves forward (5,3)
12. A time for corruption for an official notification or proposal of action (6)
13. That tide which (twice in a lunar month) will rise least and fall least from the mean level (4,4)
15. Insane and heading off this small fish has longitudinal dark lines along it’s body, yellow top, white belly (4)
18. In the Bognor Estuary is a sandbank at the mouth of River Thames lying off entrance to River Medway (4)
20. The resultant, achieved by sailing a vessel for a given period over two courses (8)
24. Rage over a soldier about a maritime slang word for a friend or a mate (6)
25. A pendulum moves with simple . . . . . . . . motion (8)
27. Any collection containing a variety of old boats etc. or mixed bag of things (3-6)
28. A seaport on the Gulf of Guinea and former capital of British Colony of Gold Coast, now Ghana (5)
29. What a sail is said to do when it is steady and fully shaped with wind (5)
30. The general cause for a stern gland becoming very hot – from grass on the rod (4,5)
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1. Bobbin Head plus a minus has changed to form this rain cloud (6)
2. Sailing term which means to set extra sails to press the vessel faster (5,2)
3. Where you are – when proceeding up river or into the harbour (8)
4. Mariner’s slang term for a wind blowing towards the south west (9)
5. An old sailor might be an idiot about this old maritime word meaning to ‘luff’ (4)
6. Pitches heavily either by bow or stern with great force into the trough of the sea (6)
7. Name for a schooner yacht of 170 tons built in New York in 1851 for the New York Yacht Club (7)
8. A depot or storehouse where cargoes are brought for distribution to other parts of the world (8)
14. Compass error caused by local magnetic fields that surround and move with the compass (9)
16. Name of the British screw sloop of 342 tons that was used in the Arctic searching for Sir John Franklin (8)
17. Small fin-like fittings on outboard motors, to compensate for steering torques (4,4)
19. They are great at arranging a meeting for boat races or rowing races (7)
21. A long Scandinavian galley or longship, oars or sail used as a warship with 20 to 30 oarsmen (7)
22. Qualified coastal navigators employed to help vessels through narrow waterways (6)
23. A reflecting navigational instrument, was used to measure star positions, replaced by the sextant (6)
26. Name given to a lateen-rigged coasting vessel used along the coasts of India in 18th and 19th centuries (4)
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