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Sailor · 1971–2025

Richard Hartley

blithfield sc HandicapOspreyClass 40

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Events
48

191 races · 30 race wins

Win rate
15%

15% win rate · 7 of 48

Podium rate
31%

15 top-three finishes

Typically beats
76%

of boats faced (range 74%–77%, 1,780 boats)

Best class ranking
#5

Helm in Osprey · rating 230

Longest win streak
8

race wins in a row

Most successful partnership
Mark Hartley

7 wins · 15 podiums in 47 events together · 15% win rate

Longest-running crew
Mark Hartley

Jan 2000 – Jan 2025 · 47 events

Nemesis
Martin Cooney

1–11 head to head in 12 races

Best day
1 Jan 2008

1-1-1-1-2-1 · 2008 Welsh & Midlands Championships

Signature result
1st of 58

PROVISIONAL Results are provisional as of 13:12 on July 21, 2014 · Handicap · 1 Jan 2014

Partnerships · 2 sailors

Most successful partnership: Mark Hartley — 7 wins · 15 podiums in 47 events together · 15% win rate
  • Mark Hartley · 1114, 11323, 1259, 1312 · Class 40, Handicap, Osprey 47events 7 wins together · 15 podiums · 15% win rate · 29 of 186 races won Beat 72% of the fleet together · best 1st · Jan 2000 – Jan 2025
  • Wally Gardiner · Ogopogo · Handicap 1events 0 wins together · 0 podiums · 1 events · 1 of 5 races won Beat 89% of the fleet together · best 13th · Jan 1971 – Jan 1971

Lift shows how much better this sailor finishes with that partner aboard.

Rating history

017635220092011201320152017201920212023Helm rating, full-size sailing

Event history · 48

DateEventBoatClassRoleFinish
1 Jan 2025Osprey Inlands and Final Fling 20251381HandicapSkipper11th / 15
1 Jan 2025Results as of 18:10 on October 12, 20251381HandicapSkipper34th / 43
1 Jan 20232023 Wilkinson Sword Trophy1381HandicapSkipper16th / 43
1 Jan 2023Osprey Class 2006 UK National Championship1312HandicapSkipper3rd / 36
1 Jan 2023UKWA National Championship 202311323HandicapSkipper6th / 28
1 Jan 2023UKWA National Championship 202311323HandicapSkipper5th / 28
1 Jan 2023UKWA National Championship 202311323HandicapSkipper21st / 28
1 Jan 20222022 Inland Championship1381HandicapSkipper1st / 16
1 Jan 20222022 National Championship1381HandicapSkipper11th / 42
1 Jan 20222022 Southern Area Championship1381HandicapSkipper17th / 19
1 Jan 20222022 Wilkinson Sword Trophy1381HandicapSkipper22nd / 50
1 Jan 20212021 End of Sseason Flinal Fling1381HandicapSkipper1st / 13
1 Jan 20212021 Inland ChampionshipHartley BoatsHandicapSkipper8th / 15
1 Jan 20212021 Osprey Wilkinson Sword Trophy1381HandicapSkipper3rd / 37
1 Jan 2021FINAL Results after Day 41381HandicapSkipper12th / 45
1 Jan 2021Osprey Class 2021 Southern Area Championship1381HandicapSkipper7th / 16
1 Jan 20172017 UK National Championship1366HandicapSkipper5th / 37
1 Jan 20172017 Welsh & Midlands Championship1366HandicapSkipper15th / 18
1 Jan 20172017 Wilkinson Sword Trophy1366HandicapSkipper46th / 54
1 Jan 20162016 Osprey National ChampionshipsLast ChanceHandicapSkipper5th / 36
1 Jan 20152015 Osprey National Championship1355OspreySkipper5th / 34
1 Jan 2014PROVISIONAL Results are provisional as of 13:12 on July 21, 2014Just ChanceHandicapSkipper1st / 58
1 Jan 2014PROVISIONAL Results are provisional as of 15:57 on July 21, 2014Just ChanceHandicapSkipper9th / 58
1 Jan 2014PROVISIONAL Results are provisional as of 17:40 on July 22, 2014Just ChanceClass 40Skipper3rd / 58
1 Jan 2014PROVISIONAL Results are provisional as of 18:49 on July 21, 2014Just ChanceHandicapSkipper3rd / 58

Helm rating, Full-size sailing: 352, #8,989. Compiled from public results; not an official ranking.