Richard Jenkins (engineer)

Richard Jenkins is a British engineer from Lymington. He is known for engineering and sailing wind-driven vessels on land, ice and water. In 1999, he founded the Windjet Project while studying mechanical engineering at Imperial College. Since then, he has designed, built and tested four separate speed record craft. Jenkins is the founder and CEO of Saildrone, a company that designs, manufacturers and manages unmanned surface vehicles that sail the world's oceans collecting science data.