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You know you’ve hit on an innovative vessel design when you’re not quite sure how to go about describing it. For example, the Most Valuable Yacht (MVY) concept devised by UK start-up DRIFT Energy could be categorised as a hydrogen production and bunkering vessel or, alternatively, as a “green, self-filling tanker” or a “fishing boat for energy”, founder and CEO Ben Medland tells Ship & Boat International. Whatever the handle, Bath-based DRIFT has ambitious plans to push this new design to fulfil an extremely ambitious, critical mission; namely, “to abate a gigatonne of CO₂ by 2050 by having a flotilla of MVYs on every ocean”, Medland predicts. The MVY is a 58m, high-performance sailing catamaran, intended to work along the same lines as