Weekend of short, head-to-head match races between school teams, the RYA Schools Match Racing Championship, at the WPNSA.
The RYA Schools Match Racing Championship is coming to the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) on the weekend of 21-22 November 2026. It's run by the Royal Yachting Association and built around short, head-to-head match races between school teams — a format geared at junior sailors. It runs over the whole weekend, and it's staged alongside other youth sailing events, so there'll be plenty of boats on the water beyond just the championship.
The venue itself is the WPNSA, which sits on the South Coast between Portland Harbour and Weymouth Bay. It's a place with a bit of history: it hosted the sailing events for London 2012. The Academy has the ISO 20121 standard for Event Sustainability Management, so sustainability is built into how they plan things, and they run youth and training programmes throughout the year.
If you're walking around the pontoons, you'll find a Sea Hive there too. It's a marine conservation, education and community-engagement initiative installed in January 2024 by the Sea Cadets Portland, with funding from SeaLife Weymouth via The Sea Life Trust. It's a good reminder of what's happening beneath the surface while the racing is going on above.
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For those coming from further afield, there are overnight campervanning spaces available on-site, so you can stay right by the water. The championship runs across Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November at the WPNSA, Osprey Quay, Portland, Dorset, DT5 1SA.
Date
21 November – 22 November
Recommended Age
+14 years
