RYA Youth Nationals - Huge Congratulations!
Published 16:56 on 14 Apr 2026
The RYA's flagship youth event, the Youth Nationals took place at HISC last week.
The best youth sailors in the UK battled it out to be British champions - and for many classes this was a selector event for World and European Championships in 2026. Just short of two hundred sailors took part in 7 categories of dinghies/IQ foils.
Congratulations to India on achieving the coveted title of RYA Female Youth Champion 2026. A first for BSC! - and BSC's Pippa Shepherd coming second female.
Congratulations to India, Pippa, Ed, Zac and Tom who have been selected for a GB place for the World Championships in France and the European Championships in Lithuania in July 2026.
Congratulations to all six sailors for representing the best of youth sailing and flying the flag for Bosham Sailing Club.
The first four days were the 29ers, Nacras and IQ Foils. It was extremely windy conditions and a lot of the racing took place in Chichester Harbour.
The second four days were the 420's and ILCA. After a very windy first day with multiple capsizes, the weather settled to gentler breeze and all the racing took place out of the harbour in either Bracklesham or Hayling Bay.
BSC had strong representation in the 420's with 6 home boats competing out of the 39 entries.
At the end of the first 3 days and 9 races, three of the Bosham boats - India Eastwood, Pippa Shepherd and Ed Upton Brown were through to the medal race - comprising the top 10 boats. India and Pippa both achieved a number of bullets in the fleet racing and went into the medal race in 1st and 5th position respectively. Zac Shepherd narrowly missed out on the medal race due to a BFD on the final fleet race.
After a tense medal race, India was crowned RYA 420 Female Youth Champion and 2nd overall, Pippa was 2nd Female, top U17 boat and fifth overall.
Ed finished 8th, Zac 11th, Tom Eastwood 17th and Else Upton Brown 26th.
Last updated 17:13 on 14 April 2026
