About Sorensen Maritime

Sorensen Maritime provides independent advisory services focused on how vessels actually perform at sea—over time, in real-world conditions, with real crews.

The work is grounded in the practical understanding that many long-term safety, comfort, and operational outcomes are shaped by early design, layout, and specification decisions—often before their consequences are fully visible. Seemingly small choices involving helm visibility and ergonomics, vessel motion and predictability on plane, propulsion and control responsiveness, heavy-weather seaworthiness, and crew workload, comfort, and fatigue are frequently made early. Once a vessel enters service, those decisions can have outsized and lasting effects.

Sorensen Maritime focuses on identifying design and performance elements that are difficult to quantify or formally specify, yet critical to real-world mission performance. The objective is to help owners, operators, and institutions recognize and address risk early—while options remain flexible and corrective action is still practical.

About Eric William Sorensen

Eric William Sorensen is Principal of Sorensen Maritime. His advisory work draws on decades of experience operating and evaluating small craft, patrol vessels, commercial fishing vessels, yachts, and ships to 10,000 tons, viewed through the lens of real-world use.

His work includes close comparison of similar vessels using competitive analysis methodologies developed through direct operational experience. This approach emphasizes how differences in hull form, propulsion, layout, and control translate into measurable differences in safety, crew workload, and operational effectiveness at sea.

Mr. Sorensen is the author of Sorensen’s Guide to Powerboats (505 pages, McGraw-Hill), a technical reference widely used by owners, builders, mariners, and design institutions to better understand how design, construction, and propulsion choices influence vessel behavior, crew workload, and operational outcomes. His work consistently emphasizes operational results, with a central focus on crew well-being and effectiveness, from which mission readiness and capability naturally follow.

His advisory work has supported private owners, commercial operators, and government clients evaluating new builds, refits, and in-service vessels, with particular attention to early-stage decisions that shape long-term functionality, crew safety and welfare, and mission effectiveness.

An Independent Perspective

Sorensen Maritime works independently and does not represent builders, brokers, or equipment vendors. Advice is provided solely in the client’s interest.

Engagements typically occur before designs are finalized, vessels are purchased, or operational assumptions are locked in—when informed guidance can materially improve long-term outcomes.