Maritime Match

I built Maritime Match because the trouble in maritime recruitment is not a shortage of Filipino seafarers. It is position matchmaking: incomplete CVs, unstructured sea service, and hours wasted by both sides.

I still sail. I am a serving Captain. This platform is online-only on purpose. It is a talent discovery and job information site, not a manning agency. Licensed agencies hire. Seafarers never pay a placement fee here.

The core stays the same. Licensed agencies post a vacancy and get a curated ranked shortlist. Seafarers who mark themselves open for jobs get an automatic notification when they fit a vacancy. We do not recruit or place. No seafarer fees.

Besides that matching core I built free tools I would actually use onboard and ashore — the ones I wish were one tap away on watch:

Sea Tools — Sea Calculator (ETA, gyro, bunker, draft survey, currency, true wind, unit converter, FWA/DWA), Draft Survey, Grain Stability Check, and ORB Entry Helper.

Promotion Reviewer — a competency reviewer for your next rank. Book-style definitions you can open between watches, not a school course.

Cook Hub — Filipino galley menus, meal plans, and provisioning reference for the chief cook and galley team. Built for the mess, not for a food blog.

MedDeck — a quick medical reference and first-aid learning aid, based on recognised seafarer medical guides: emergency-first, symptom-first. Not a doctor and not TMAS; a first reference when you need one.

If you are a manning agency I already know, ask for early access.

If you are a seafarer, create a free profile and fill the sea-service table properly. That table is still the whole point of the match.

Open the tools when you need them — Sea Tools, Promotion Reviewer, Cook Hub, and MedDeck. Built from a Captain's watch: the references I wish were one tap away at sea, and still useful when you are home between contracts.

— Captain Mac