Alternatives · BASSnet

A BASSnet alternative with published pricing and offline-first operation

BASSnet is a broad fleet management suite covering maintenance, procurement, safety and crewing. Full Ahead covers the same operational core a technical department runs on — predictive planned maintenance, requisitions and spare-part stock, budget control, and audit-ready ISM, ISPS, SOLAS and MARPOL records — with EUR pricing published on the website and an installable app that keeps working when the vessel has no link.

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Where Full Ahead Maritime sits

The difference is not scope of the technical department's daily work; it is how you get it. One product, one price per vessel band, no shipboard server and no implementation project between you and a working system.

Who moves across

Small and mid-size managers who want enterprise-grade records without enterprise procurement
Superintendents who want maintenance, spares and cost in one place instead of three licensed modules
Owners consolidating spreadsheets and email-based evidence into one auditable system
Teams that need superintendents ashore and crew at sea to see the same data

Full Ahead Maritime compared with BASSnet

How Full Ahead Maritime compares with BASSnet
Buying and operating	Full Ahead Maritime	BASSnet
Time from signature to first vessel live	Same day — self-serve sign-up, guided fleet setup	Typically a scoped implementation project; timelines quoted per contract by BASS
Pricing	Published EUR tiers per vessel band, monthly or annual	Quotation-based; licence, modules and services priced per deal
Procurement, spare-part stock and budget control	Included: requisition → approval → order → receipt, storeroom stock with minimum levels, and yearly budget lines showing committed and actual spend	Generally available as separately licensed modules — confirm scope and cost with the vendor
Predictive maintenance	Remaining-useful-life scoring and spares forecasting included in every tier	Varies by edition and module selection — confirm with the vendor
Working with the satellite link down	Designed offline-first: the installable app keeps the last two weeks of fleet data readable, and jobs closed, spares issued and requisitions raised at sea are stored on board and upload themselves on reconnect — no replication server, no shore-side install	Offline typically relies on a shipboard installation replicating to shore on a schedule — confirm the deployment model, replication interval and IT burden with the vendor
Audit-ready evidence for ISM, ISPS, SOLAS, MARPOL	Built in, with a tamper-evident audit log and evidence library	Generally supported; scope depends on modules licensed
Shipboard IT footprint	None — a browser or the installable app on any laptop or tablet the crew already has	A vessel-side installation and database is common in traditional deployments; BASS can confirm current requirements
Try it alongside your current system	30-day parallel review — run your own vessels beside your current system	Usually a guided demo or pilot arranged with sales

BASSnet is a trademark of its respective owner and is named here only for comparison. Full Ahead Maritime is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to BASSnet. Capabilities, modules and commercial terms vary by edition and contract — always confirm current details with the vendor.

What actually changes when you move from BASSnet

What a BASSnet-style module map costs you in practice

Suites of this generation are assembled from separately licensed modules — maintenance, procurement, safety/QHSE, dry-docking, crewing — and the quote grows with each one. The practical consequence is not only cost: a superintendent chasing a defect has to cross module boundaries, and the parts of the picture the company didn't licence simply aren't there. Full Ahead ships one dataset: the defect, the job it generated, the requisition it triggered, the spare issued from the storeroom and the budget line it consumed are the same records, in every tier, at every fleet size.

Migrating a BASSnet equipment register

The realistic path is a spreadsheet export of the equipment tree, job plans with intervals and counters, running hours, certificate registers and the open non-conformity list. We map those columns with you, keep your existing equipment coding so superintendents recognise the tree, and load history so counters and intervals continue rather than restart. Two vessels in parallel for one maintenance cycle is enough to compare the outputs against the incumbent before the rest of the fleet moves.

Where a full enterprise suite is still the right answer

If you run a large fleet with crewing, payroll, chartering and voyage accounting inside one vendor's product, and you have the IT function to support it, a broad suite remains a coherent choice. Full Ahead is deliberately the technical department's system — maintenance, compliance, procurement, stock and evidence — not a company-wide ERP. Buy it if that core is where your risk and your wasted hours actually sit.

Questions buyers ask when switching

Can we migrate our BASSnet maintenance data?

Yes. Equipment registers, job plans, running hours, certificates and evidence can be imported from spreadsheet exports, which every mainstream system can produce. We map the columns with you during setup.

Do we have to switch the whole fleet at once?

No. Most operators run one or two vessels in parallel for a maintenance cycle, compare the outputs against their existing system, and roll the rest of the fleet over afterwards.

Will class and flag accept the records?

Full Ahead keeps planned maintenance, certificates and non-conformity close-out evidence in an auditable trail with timestamps and actor identity, which is what surveyors and PSC officers ask to see. Always confirm acceptance with your class society and flag administration.

What does it cost?

Pricing is published in EUR on the pricing page and scales with the number of vessels. There is a 30-day parallel review.

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