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The Age of Sail

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.

A few of the words

GALLEON
The Spanish galleon was the workhorse of 16th- and 17th-century ocean trade, carrying silver across the Atlantic from the mines of the New World back to Seville.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SPYGLASS
The hand-held telescope, called a spyglass at sea, became standard equipment on naval vessels after the early 1600s, letting lookouts and officers scan the horizon for land or rival ships.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
COMPASS
Magnetic compasses reached European sailors by the 12th century, gradually replacing total reliance on the stars and transforming open-ocean navigation.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CROW
The crow's nest, a small platform near the top of the mast, gave a lookout the highest, clearest view of the sea ahead, sometimes the first eyes to spot a new shore.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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The Age of Sail: a free large-print word search

Age of Sail word search, free and large-print. Step aboard a tall ship: the creak of rigging, salt air, and a chart spread wide over an unknown sea.

About The Age of Sail

The great age of sail stretched across centuries, sending wooden ships out across uncharted oceans with nothing but the stars, a compass, and hard-won seamanship to guide them. A tall-masted galleon running before the wind was one of the most complex machines of its era, miles of rigging, acres of canvas, and a crew that had to master every last line and spar. From the crow's nest, a sailor with a spyglass might glimpse a new coastline for the very first time, a moment that changed the map of the world forever.

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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