Afloat

Afloat Xword 92

Compiled by John Gray

Afloat Crossword 92Athwart

 1.    A giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun (6)
 4.     Boats that are used for communication between ship and shore (8)
 8.     Said of your boat’s engine when it is running but disconnected from the drive (6)
 9.     Elevation especially above sea level or above the earth’s surface (8)
10.     A “type” of battery, utilising lead and sulphuric acid as an electrolyte (3,4)
12.     Fear about the old Latin name for the south-west wind (4)
14.    Term for the upper and lower framing or lining of a square port cut in a ship’s side (4)
15.     To “carry excessive sail” – or to approach too close to another sailer which has right of way (5)
17.     Old celestial device to determine latitude – the invention allowed for the earliest known latitude in sailing (5)
19.     The escalator which houses a ladder used on the ships of Greece and Rome (5)
20.     Mediterranean 15th & 16th century lateen sail merchant vessels, used by crusaders to sail to the Holy Land (4)
23.     Commemorative of the Allied landing in France, World War II (1,3)
24.     Utensils that can be used to empty sailers of inboard water (7)
27.     This white wine is in Kelvin Blanchard’s cellar (3,5)
28.     The condition of one’s yacht when she is wholly supported by water and clear of the ground (6)
29.     A legendary country associated with celebrated King Arthur, supposed to lie off the southern coast of Cornwall, England (8)
30.     A structure that is not contiguous to another part of the ship – the bridge on a carrier’s flight deck (6)

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 1.    Sloop-rigged hard-chined workboats of the east coast of  USA with jib-headed mainsails, and their foresails set on bowsprits (9)
 2.     The name given to a small boat’s canvas awning covering the stern sheets, for passenger protection (4)
 3.     To lay out cable or chain on deck for inspection of weak links (5)
 4.     What a sailer does when her bows come out of the water, and she travels on her own bow wave (6)
 5.     A small line used at the head and foot of a hammock, in its clew, doubled around a ring and its eyelet holes (6)
 6.     A taliped? Nautical term given to a ‘headsail’ that has a spar attached to its foot (4-6)
 7.     Said of a vessel supported on the crests of three successive waves which float her at bow, amidships and stern (5)
11.     This small nail is found in the corner of a sail formed by the luff and the foot (4)
    13.    Olden term for a square rigger with all running rigging hauled taut and belayed and all yards crossed on the masts (3,1,5,1)
16.     Said of a ship when her spars have ‘gone by the board’ in a storm (9)
18.     Maritime term that means to “attach”, as a sail to a gaff – found on a hem? (4)
21.     These German submersibles will take us around the boat (1,5)
    22.    The geometrical ‘shape” of the black marking on a yellow background, for the international flag meaning “I am altering my course to port” (6)
23.     Lived back in the old wooden ships in a large seam between the gunwale and the waterline (5)
25.     The collective moorings of several yachts, tied together in a busy marina (5)
26.     A violent easterly squall in upper part of the Adriatic Sea – from a type of swine (4)

Solution to Afloat Crossword 92