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Junior Week 2025

Sun 10th Aug 2025 - Registration
Mon 11th -Sat 16th Aug 2025 - Racing

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Bosham Junior Week is a week long racing and social event that is a MUST if you are 8 to 18 years old. Great, competitive racing coupled with a hectic social programme make this the teenage (and younger!) sailing and social event of the year! Junior Week is our major Cadet event of the year and offers:

Races for all fleets over six days in Chichester Harbour and Bosham Channel
'Fun' races
Action-packed social events for cadets and parents
Memories that will last a life time

Take a look at our photo galleries from 2024 here.

Our sailing base is at Cobnor. Please read our ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS here

All competitors must be members of either:

BSC
another federated Chichester Harbour club, or
an RYA affiliated sailing club

Entry Details for Bosham Junior Week 2025

Entry criteria:
Entry opens at 5pm on Monday 2ndJune and Closes Friday 6th June at 5pm
All tickets will go "pending" and there will be no priority based upon when you enter.
it is paramount that all information is correct, so please take time over inputting information when booking!

The ticket price for entry includes all tickets and food for competitors at all the social functions except the 14+ Black tie dinner.

Entry includes for the cadets:

All disco tickets, class parties and games nights.
Food on Monday (Family Dinner)
Year Group dinners and Disco
Food and Disco on Saturday night.
Bag, T-Shirt and other merch!!
Adults and non-competing Sibling will need to book tickets to each of the Social events they wish to attend.

Once entry is closed the office will check information and authorise tickets accordingly
Each cadet must be a member of Bosham or a RYA affiliated club

By the 29th June 2025; the cadet must have Completed at least 4 races since last Bosham Week in the boat they are sailing. You can still enter, but will remain a pending ticket until the races are completed.

For members, every eligible family member (16+) must have either done or signed up for a club duty in 2025
Cobnor has a limit of number of boats, and we will work our hardest to accommodate every entry, but if we are oversubscribed entry will be chosen at the sole discretion of the Committee and staff of Bosham Sailing Club.

Early entry to racing and socials is advised to avoid disappointment. All social bookings will need to be pre-booked by 31st July 2025.

Classes which take part are Optimist, Topper (4.2 and 5.3 rigs), RS Feva, Mirror, International 420 and Laser Radial/ILCA 6, subject to minimum numbers being reached. Each day of racing starts with a briefing for all sailors and parents followed by 1-3 races per fleet according to the wind/weather followed by a variety of fun races.

To participate, every competitor must supply adults to do a minimum of two land or water based duties. These adults must also be members of BSC, a federated Chichester Harbour club or an RYA affiliated club. Any non-BSC member adults must pay a temporary membership fee in order to carry out their duties. The duty roster will go live for sign-ups at 18:00 Monday 30th June 2025. To apply for your duties, log into the BSC duty roster.

Duty Descriptions can be seen here Duty Descriptions JW.docx

The Bosham Junior Week committee extend a big thank you in advance for the help, support and enthusiasm of all parents/guardians/supporters, without which the event would not be possible. We appreciate that the event requires significant commitment from supporters as well as competitors.