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ISO 19030: Measuring Hull & Propeller Performance

The industry's standard method for measuring hull and propeller performance change, taught end to end: the performance model, the filters, the four indicators, the low-instrumentation alternatives, and the standard's honest limits.

Lessons
8
Quiz questions
64
Exercises
2 (15 min)
Calculators
2
Time
About 88 min
Price
€179+ VAT
Certificate
Graded final exam, then a PDF certificate with a number anyone can verify
Who it's for
Performance analysts, technical superintendents, and anyone who has to produce, or challenge, a speed-loss figure that will be used to spend money.
Assumed knowledge
Comfort with speed-power curves. Our course The Road to Efficiency introduces this standard in one overview lesson; this course is the same standard part by part. Our course Vessel Performance in Practice applies this method in a wider operational context; either order works with this one.
Taught by

Christos Papandreou

CEO & Founder, Blue Autonomy

  • Naval architect and marine engineer, National Technical University of Athens
  • 15 years of experience in fleet performance and operational data
  • Chief Scientific Officer, NEMO, previously DeepSea Technologies, StormGeo, Athenian Sea Carriers, PwC

Part of the Vessel Performance Analyst I: Measuring Performance specialisation.

What you will be able to do

By the end of the course. Each outcome names the lessons that deliver it, and the final exam samples every one of them.

  1. Explain why ISO 19030 exists, what each of its three parts covers, and what the standard deliberately does and does not measure. Lesson 1
  2. Defend percentage speed loss as the performance value: state the performance model, name its two primary parameters, and identify the assumptions the model quietly makes. Lesson 2
  3. Rank the instrument fits the standard anticipates, trace how speed-log bias and power-measurement choices propagate into the result, and run the cross-checks that catch a lying sensor. Lesson 3
  4. Configure and defend a filter chain (the main exclusion criteria and the two light corrections the default method keeps, for wind and for displacement) against both looseness and overfitting. Lesson 4
  5. Compute a performance value from a filtered record, aggregate values over declared reference and evaluation periods into an indicator, and quote the result with its uncertainty. Lesson 5
  6. Define the four performance indicators by the periods each compares, select the right indicator and window lengths for a given commercial question, price the accuracy cost of Part 3's low-instrumentation substitutions, and use the standard's language, limits included, correctly in guarantees and contracts. Lessons 6, 7, 8

When two parties argue about a hull, owner and charterer, owner and coating maker, superintendent and CFO, the argument is only productive if both sides compute performance the same way. ISO 19030 exists to be that common way: a standardised method for measuring changes in hull and propeller performance from in-service data.

This course teaches the method itself, part by part: the performance model and why speed loss is its chosen currency; what the primary parameters demand from your instruments; how the default method filters a year of noisy data down to records that mean something; how performance values become the four performance indicators; and what the standard's alternative methods offer a ship without a torque meter, and at what price in accuracy.

The opening lesson is free to read as a sample. The final lesson is candid about what the standard does not solve, and what modern practice has layered on top of it.

By the end, "our speed loss is 4.2%" should be a sentence you can defend clause by clause, or take apart when someone else says it.

What the course covers

  1. A Common Language for Hull and Propeller Performance 8 min
  2. The Performance Model: Why Speed Loss Is the Currency 11 min
  3. Instruments and Their Sins: What the Method Demands of Sensors 8 min
  4. The Filter Chain: Choosing the Records Worth Believing 23 min + exercise
  5. From Performance Values to Performance Indicators 13 min + exercise
  6. The Four Indicators, as the Standard Defines Them 8 min
  7. Part 3: Measuring Without the Full Toolkit 8 min
  8. Where the Standard Runs Out, and What Practice Adds 9 min

€179 + VAT

€221.96 including 24% VAT, which is what an individual in the EU pays. Outside the EU no VAT is added. A company in another EU country pays the net price once its VAT number is confirmed in VIES, the EU's register; a company in Greece pays the 24%. Checkout shows the total before you pay.

Paid once, for one person, for as long as the Academy runs: every lesson, the 2 Excel workbooks, the final examination and the certificate. Part of the Vessel Performance Analyst I: Measuring Performance specialisation, which costs less than its courses bought one at a time.

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Common questions

What exactly is included?

8 lessons (about 88 minutes in total), 64 quiz questions with explained answers, and 2 working Excel calculators: ISO 19030 speed-loss workbook, Speed-loss fuel & carbon calculator.

How much does it cost?

€179 plus VAT, paid once: €221.96 with 24% VAT, which is what an individual in the EU pays; outside the EU no VAT is added, and a company in another EU country with a VAT number valid in VIES pays the net price. That buys every lesson, the 2 Excel workbooks, the final examination and the certificate, for one person, for as long as the Academy runs. The course is also part of the Vessel Performance Analyst I: Measuring Performance specialisation, which costs less than its courses bought one at a time. Everything else is on the pricing page.

Is there work to do, or is it only reading?

2 lessons carry a required exercise, about 15 minutes of hands-on work in total. You download that lesson's Excel workbook, follow the numbered steps against the numbers the lesson states, then change one input and watch the answer move. The exercises are where the method stops being something you have read and becomes something you can run; the stated course time includes them.

Do I get a certificate?

Yes. The course ends with a graded final exam, marked on our server rather than in your browser: you see your score and which questions you got wrong, but not the answers, because the questions are drawn from a pool. Pass it and you get a PDF certificate in your name, with a certificate number on it.

That number is the point. Anyone you show the certificate to can check it themselves at academy.blueautonomy.gr/verify, with no account and no email to us: the page states the name, the course and the date we issued it. A certificate nobody can verify is a decorated PDF, and we would rather issue one that stands up.

Can I preview the course?

Yes: the first lesson, A Common Language for Hull and Propeller Performance, is free to read in full. It is a real lesson, not a trailer: same depth, same quiz.

Do I need prior knowledge?

Comfort with speed-power curves. Our course The Road to Efficiency introduces this standard in one overview lesson; this course is the same standard part by part. Our course Vessel Performance in Practice applies this method in a wider operational context; either order works with this one.