Filippi Focus | Junior Sculling Regatta 2025
With crews racing up and down the country, Filippi UK were busier than ever before over the course of the first May bank holiday weekend. At the Junior Sculling Regatta, we collected six medals, including four golds, to complete a fantastic few days of rowing. Our golds all came in the open single disciplines, as […]
Filippi Focus | BUCS Regatta 2025
Filippi had a storming weekend at BUCS Regatta 2025, taking 34% of all silverware available and ending the event as the most successful boatbuilder by medals won. In an event touted as the student national championships, with dozens of clubs descending on Nottingham in the hope of winning some coveted silverware ahead of the lead-in […]
Filippi Focus | The 2025 Women’s Boat Race
Eight out of eight. Rarely in rowing has dominance been so personified. The streak that Cambridge University Boat Club’s women’s squad are currently on – dating all the way back to 2017, where they first broke a run of four Oxford wins in a row – is remarkable and testament to the astonishing programme that […]
Filippi Focus | Junior Sculling Head 2025
Filippi rounded off the winter racing season at Dorney Lake at the 2025 Junior Sculling Head, collecting four medals, including two golds. Our first victory came in the women’s junior 16 quads, where Marlow Rowing Club took an impressive win against George Heriot’s and Headington School. Pete Chambers’ programme continues to go from strength to strength, […]
Filippi Focus | Schools’ Head of the River 2025
Springtime is upon us, and the flurry of Tideway heads that accompany the curtain call of winter are now over. The Schools’ Head of the River – one of the largest junior-only events on the UK calendar – was another fabulous day out on the championship course, with hundreds of boats taking to the water. […]
Filippi Focus | Head of the River Race 2025
Filippi rounded out the senior men’s winter season in fine form at the 2025 edition of the Head of the River Race, winning six pennants across various categories. Our fastest finisher on the day were Marlow Rowing Club, who placed 17th overall and took home the Page Trophy for non-Tideway Thames crews. Marlow are continuing to build […]
Filippi Focus | Women’s Head of the River Race 2025
On International Women’s Day, it felt apt that so many women could come together on the world-famous Championship Course to compete in the Women’s Head of the River. Hundreds of athletes took to the water in pursuit of pennants in gorgeous conditions that provided an appropriate forecast of summer racing to come. Filippi enjoyed a […]
Filippi Focus | GBRT February U19 Trials 2025
Photo credit: AllMarkOne Filippi once again proved its mettle as the choice of victors at the GBRT February U19 Trials 2025, achieving two category wins on the Saturday of racing alongside a host of top-ten finishes. With dozens of juniors heading to Boston to register their second claim on an international seat in the summer, […]
Filippi Focus | GBRT February Senior and U23 Trials 2025
Photo credit: AllMarkOne Filippi kickstarted 2025 with two from four category wins at the February staging of the GBRT Senior and U23 Trials, confirming our boats as the choice of champions. George Bourne and Douwe de Graaf of Cambridge University reaffirmed their status as the country’s leading contenders for senior seats this summer, as they […]
The Performance Configuration: Part 3
The Seat, as explained by one of Filippi’s core engineers: Specifically, we aimed to not only use new technologies to better transfer the load from the seat to the wheels but also to eliminate all hinged, pinned, or bolted joints. We replaced all of this with significantly higher rigidity by creating a monolithic piece: the […]