by Donald Blount & Louis T. Codega
Presentation to The Hampton Roads Section SNAME
Our Thoughts on this Paper
This month we look back at one of our founder’s greatest achievements – DESTRIERO. DESTRIERO was designed in the late 1980’s by our founder, Donald L. Blount, with the objective of becoming the fastest vessel to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean. The conceptual design of the vessel required the trade space for hull dimensions to be explored quickly without much information. Donald developed an easily adaptable process, using information available in the public domain to zero in on vessel size to meet a set of requirements.