Building and Buying Better Boats
Welcome to Sorensen’s Guide to Powerboats, LLC. We offer our consulting services to federal and state government agencies, the military, commercial ship and patrol boat suppliers, pleasure boat builders and individual boat owners.

Our specialties include existing-vessel analysis and improvement, new-vessel concept and prototype development, testing and evaluation, analysis of alternatives, competitive analysis and executive and dealer training. Depending on the mission, we work on our own, with government agencies, or with leading naval architecture and engineering firms to produce measurably superior results. We have analyzed hundreds of vessels of all descriptions in great detail, and can provide you with specific, tiered and prioritized solutions to enhance your vessels’ operational capability. Our work is informed by over 40 years experience operating Coast Guard, Navy, Commercial and Pleasure craft of all descriptions in extreme conditions.

Whether it’s improving ride quality and seakeeping, helm and bridge design, topside safety, accommodations or survivability in extreme conditions, helping you bring your patrol boats or yachts to the next level is what we do. We can help you evaluate vessel capabilities and limitations, whether it’s a lead vessel for a new class of rescue craft, or a one-off you’re considering building for your own private use. We also work with boatbuilders with one goal in mind- helping you design and build boats that are quantifiably and demonstrably superior to the competition, thereby increasing customer loyalty and brand advocacy.

Sorensen’s Guide to Powerboats: How to Evaluate Design, Construction and Performance, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, a 500-page reference for marine professionals and boat owners alike, is widely recognized as the most definitive source of information about powerboats available anywhere today. Copies of the book, signed by the author, are available. Our dealer training and certification program is based on the material in the book.

Eric Sorensen is an engaging and experienced motivational speaker, and is available for forums, conventions, owners clubs and other venues. He also works with boat manufacturers to motivate, train and certify dealers to a higher standard of technical product knowledge, enthusiasm and confidence.

What we do is unique in this industry, and we enjoy doing it. Providing you with actionable information and insight into powerboats of all descriptions is our business.