Specialisation Foundation → Specialist
Vessel Performance Analyst I: Measuring Performance
Measure what a hull and propeller actually cost, back it with methods a charterer can check, and keep the data that carries the number honest.
- Courses
- 5
- Lessons
- 40
- Time
- About 6 hours
- Price
- €629+ VAT
- Assumed knowledge
- Comfort with basic ship terminology. Our course Ship Resistance Fundamentals is the ideal physics warm-up, but it is optional: the sequence builds what it needs where it needs it.
€629 + VAT for the sequence
The 5 paid courses cost €855 bought one at a time; as a specialisation they are €629, a saving of €226 (26%).
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You own this specialisation. Every course in it is open to you.
This is the Academy's flagship sequence, and this is its first part: the complete chain from raw shipboard data to a defensible performance number. It starts where most fleets are, noon reports and doubt, then works through the two ISO methods that make performance numbers auditable, applies them to a worked passage and to two real sister ships, prices what they find, and closes with the fleet-scale data practice that keeps all of it honest from the sensor to the verifier's spreadsheet. Part II, The Hull in Service, is where the number becomes decisions: trim, confined water, fouling and cleaning, and the docking itself.
What you'll learn
- Read a speed-power curve and explain where it comes from, and why sea-trial baselines deserve more suspicion than they get
- Run the ISO 19030 method end to end: filter chain, performance values, the four indicators
- Explain what a sea-trial result under ISO 15016 does and does not prove about a baseline
- Apply the speed-loss method to a worked passage, read it on real ship data, spend the four indicators on decisions, and price a speed loss in fuel and carbon
- Turn a fleet's raw data streams into performance and compliance numbers you can defend line by line
The sequence
Each course stands alone; this order is the order the knowledge builds.
How the courses build on each other
ISO 19030 is the thread that recurs, and it recurs at three depths rather than three times. The Road to Efficiency gives the standard one overview lesson: what it standardises, what the four indicators mean, how implementations fail on weak data. The ISO 19030 course then teaches the standard itself, part by part: the filter thresholds one at a time, reference and evaluation periods, the four indicators exactly as the text defines them, and the confidence interval that has to sit beside every figure. Vessel Performance in Practice does not teach it a third time: it uses it. Its speed-loss lesson is the method at work: one baseline, one record, one worked number and the fuel bill it implies, then the same indicator read on two real sister ships. Its indicators lesson is about spending the four on decisions: cleaning triggers, dry-dock scopes, verifying a vendor's claim. Learn the standard once, then watch it earn its keep. Fleet Data & Performance Monitoring closes the part by turning to the data itself: what every number above is only as good as, and how the same records now feed the regulator. The calm-water physics underneath all of it is owned by our course Ship Resistance Fundamentals, a recommended companion rather than a member of this sequence, and the rest refers rather than re-teaches: ISO 15016 & Speed Trials and Fleet Data & Performance Monitoring both lean on the speed-loss machinery instead of building it again. Where the number goes next, into a trim decision, a confined-water passage, a cleaning decision or a docking specification, is the second part of the sequence, Vessel Performance Analyst II: The Hull in Service.
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Paid Foundation
The Road to Efficiency
A fleet's efficiency is decided by what it can see. Starting from one of the industry's most expensive blind spots, hull fouling, this course builds the road out: continuous monitoring, honest data pipelines, defensible quality, ISO 19030, and the culture that makes it stick.
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Paid Specialist
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.
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Paid Specialist
ISO 15016 & Speed Trials
How a ship's official speed-power performance is established at sea trials: preparation, conduct, the full correction chain from current to waves to shallow water, and how to read a trial report like someone who knows where the bodies are buried.
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Paid Practitioner
Vessel Performance in Practice
How to measure what a hull and propeller actually cost you, back it with methods a charterer can check, and act on it, from sea-trial baselines through ISO 19030 speed loss to voyage decisions that survive contact with the weather.
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Paid Practitioner
Fleet Data & Performance Monitoring
How to turn a fleet's data exhaust into an asset that survives audits, disputes and Monday-morning decisions, from noon-report failure modes and validation discipline, through the regulators' granularity ratchet, to an architecture that ends in triggers people act on.
The specialisation certificate
Every course above ends in a graded final exam and a certificate. Hold the certificate for every course, and a capstone project unlocks: one scenario that draws on the whole sequence, marked on our server. Pass it and you get a second, separate certificate for the specialisation itself, naming every course it comprises: its own number, verifiable the same way.
Who teaches this
Common questions
Do the courses have to be taken in order?
No, each course stands alone. But the order above is the order the knowledge builds, so following it is the path of least resistance.
Which courses are free?
None of the five: this is a paid sequence, and The Road to Efficiency is its first course rather than a free on-ramp. Every course opens its first lesson free as a sample, and buying the specialisation is cheaper than buying the five courses one at a time. The specialisation certificate comes with the capstone, once all five course certificates are held.
What is in Part II, and do I need Part I first?
Part II, The Hull in Service, is the decisions: trim and draught, shallow and confined water, biofouling and cleaning, and the dry docking itself in its fourth course, The Docking: Buying the Hull Back. Nothing in it is locked behind Part I, but its fouling, confined-water and docking verdicts are read in the percentage speed loss that Part I teaches you to measure, while its trim and docking decisions are priced in power and fuel, so Part I first is the natural order.
How much time should I plan for?
Each course states its reading time on its page, and the sequence total is shown above. A few weeks alongside work is a comfortable pace: the quizzes make it easy to stop and resume.