About
For everyone above the line.
The Plimsoll line is the marking on every working vessel's hull that shows the maximum safe load. Below it, the boat floats. Above it, the boat sinks.
It exists because in the 1870s, ship owners were overloading vessels to extract more profit per voyage — and working mariners were drowning by the thousands in what came to be called "coffin ships." Samuel Plimsoll, a member of British Parliament, spent a decade fighting them. In 1876 he won. The load line became mandatory. Crews lived.
We took the name because that fight is still the right fight. The maritime trades — inland tug and barge, passenger vessel, commercial fishing — are still done by people who work the water for a living. Most of the information they need to advance their license, pass an inspection, find a better job, or run a safer operation is scattered across PDFs on the USCG website, threads in Facebook groups, and tribal knowledge passed deckhand-to-deckhand.
We're gathering it in one place. Cornerstone guides written by people who've been there. A verified directory of operators, surveyors, and compliance consultants. A job board where the postings are real. Prep kits for the credentials that matter.
Plimsoll Line is for the people above the line — and the people who help keep them there.