A cosy rowing game for the Concept2 RowErg https://www.rowfi.app/ Jasper Quirynen 2026-10-18T00:00:00.000Z https://www.rowfi.app/blog/hello-from-the-watersportbaan/ 2026-10-18T00:00:00.000Z

What RowFi is, where it stands, and what comes next.

<p>RowFi is a rowing game for the Concept2 RowErg. You row on your own erg, and a single sculler rows your session on a painted copy of the Watersportbaan in Ghent: the real 2 km course, its six lanes, its bridges and the clubs along its banks.</p> <p>It isn't a race. There is no leaderboard and no countdown. You start rowing and the clock starts; you stop, and your rower has a drink. The light is warm, lo-fi music plays, and the ducks, runners and cyclists go about their day. It's meant for the long, steady kilometres that make up most of a rower's training, when a screen full of numbers gets old.</p> <figure class="video"> <a class="video-play" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_FDCRjm-3o" data-video="6_FDCRjm-3o"> <img src="https://www.rowfi.app/assets/images/video.jpg" width="1280" height="720" alt="RowFi: a single sculler on the painted Watersportbaan" loading="lazy"> <span class="play" aria-hidden="true"></span> <span class="visually-hidden">Play the video</span> </a> <figcaption>The video plays from YouTube once you press play. Until then, nothing on this page loads from Google.</figcaption> </figure> <h2>The erg is the truth</h2> <p>The game reads the PM5 over Bluetooth, stroke by stroke, and the boat sits exactly at the PM5's distance. Nothing in the game adds or takes away a metre. The rower's stroke is built from your own: the catch, the drive, the finish and the recovery, at your rate. Every finished session goes to your own Concept2 Logbook.</p> <h2>Where it stands</h2> <p>RowFi is playable on an Android tablet next to the erg, and on a Windows desktop. The Logbook uploads work against Concept2's development server, while RowFi waits for its approval for the live Logbook.</p> <h2>What comes next</h2> <ul> <li>More life round the course: busier bridges, runners and cyclists the whole way round.</li> <li>The other clubs' boathouses as alive as GRS's.</li> <li>A logo, and a new look for the menus.</li> <li>The live Logbook, and then a first version for other rowers to try.</li> </ul> <p>This blog is where the news goes. Follow it with the <a href="https://www.rowfi.app/feed.xml">feed</a>.</p>