The story of Windjet started almost ten years ago, when two 'sailors' were on a cycling holiday in the Outer Hebrides. These 'sailors', were Bill Green, owner and director of Green Marine - one of the worlds biggest and most high tech composite boat builders, and Peter Whipp, a close friend and sailing colleague.

Faced with a huge expanse of open sand, the idea was born to create a composite land yacht, which after a few months and many beers, progressed into a record breaking machine.

Peter, an engineer himself, draughted in James Labouchere, an Aeronautical Engineer (the owner/director of Warrior (Aero-Marine) Ltd) to assist with the design and together they developed the concepts for the land yacht, which was then constructed at Bill's Lymington facility. After thorough static tests, that loaded the vehicle to simulated speeds far in excess of the current record, the craft was tested, proving her power, efficiency and record breaking potential. However, the opportunity did not arise to make an official challenge on the record.

Richard Jenkins was at school during the construction but was closely involved with Green Marine and the testing of the vehicle. On leaving college, Richard returned to Green Marine and started in earnest on a thorough development programme to bring the vehicle up to record breaking condition, in preparation for an attack on the world record.

However, with no personal funds available, the only route was to gain commercial sponsorship for the project. Here began a long and hard quest, and the foundations of what is now known as Windjet.

Over four years later, here we are, with a fully functioning team dedicated to shattering all three records on land, ice and water, within the next eighteen months. During this four year period, Richard has divided his time between thousands of hours developing the technical concepts, seeking commercial sponsorship for the project and gaining a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College. Richard now works full time on the project leading a team of specialists under professional project management.

This section of the site looks at the history of the records on all mediums and touches briefly upon the great British tradition of breaking records, which will hopefully have some new additions in the very near future!