FILIUS 3 — AUT 223
Model: Grand Surprise
Also raced as FILIUS 3_O
Updated
FILIUS 3 (AUT 223) is a Grand Surprise designed by Joubert/Nivelt and built by Archambault. She has been racing since 2025 and has won six races. She sails with a larger sail plan than most Grand Surprises. Against a typical Grand Surprise she is quicker upwind in light air, on a beam reach and downwind.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats25
Race starts
6
Wins
52%
Podiums
97
Race Edge
Grand Surprise: 85
533.6s/mile
Rating 2026
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Not verified. On planing hulls this score has no match in the race results we hold. Read it as what the measurements say, not as a ranking.
Length
9.55 m
31′ 4″
Beam
2.96 m
Draft
2.08 m
Displacement
2.8 t
Sail area
55 m²
On the podium
Where FILIUS 3 finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
52%
of 25 starts · Grand Surprise fleet: 18%
Wins
24%
Regattas
Every regatta we found with FILIUS 3 on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
ORC/X99 Cup202611511- 43. Montfort Cup20262523332214
- OstWest Berichtigung20261
ORC European Championship 2025 / 43rd Copa del Rey MAPFRE2025222626262528192526
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Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat.
Round the buoys
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Not enough data yet: 8 races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 1 race over 10 NM carry a published distance.
16 more races without a published distance count in the podium figures, not in this split.
Who she races against
The boats FILIUS 3 meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
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How FILIUS 3 compares with a typical Grand Surprise
Her main 2026 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Grand Surprises measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical Grand Surprise; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 1.2 kn either way.
At 10 knots she is quicker than a typical Grand Surprise on the broad reach.
Speed at every angle
FILIUS 3 in blue, a typical Grand Surprise dashed.
FILIUS 3 in blue, a typical Grand Surprise dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other Grand Surprises racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the Grand Surprise
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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