Massive Murray Paddle / 415km / 5 Days

2026 Craft Numbers:

1 Dungalayin Mileka - 1
2 Ignorance is Blissters
3 Slick and the Puffed Out Old Bloke
4 A Gross of Years
5 The Big Guns #1
6 WARMA 1
7 Denby Moylan
8 Murray Mermaids
9 Mighty Mitta Mitta
10 Salty Dogs
11 Sovereign Hillbillies
12 Logan Lizards
13 Girrawaa Yabang 1
14 Damian Hamilton BTP #1
15 Two Barnes and Six Ducks
16 Canoe Believe it
17 The Big Guns #2
18 Port Stephens Kayaying Group
19 Van Dee
20 Balla Ratbags
21 Dungalayin Mileka - 2
22 Dungalayin Mileka - 3
23 Dungalayin Mileka - 4
24 Dungalayin Mileka - 5
25 Dungalayin Mileka - 6
26 Dungalayin Mileka - 7
27 Dungalayin Mileka - 8
28 Dungalayin Mileka - 9
29 Dungalayin Mileka - 10
30 David Cummins
31 Maple Leaf Man
32 Three’s a Crowd
33 Three’s a Crowd (solo)
34 Wodonga
35 Maple Leaf Man
36 Derek Harris
37 Pirie Brothers
38 KAJO
39 Ex Parks
40 FML - 1
41 FML - 2
42 FML - 3
43 Colonels Secret Recipe
44 PGD
45 Fluffy Bunny
46 Solo Paddler
47 Velociraptor
48 Three blokes and a sheila
49 Flying Kiwi's
50 WARMA 2
51 WARMA 3
52 WARMA 4
53 WARMA 5
54 WARMA 6
55 Girrawaa Yabang 2
56 Standing Ovation (SUP)
57 River Skaters
58
59 McNair Reed
60 Kelly Brothers
61 Brad Miles
82 Canoe Brothers

Wow. We just booked in a new team of 8 paddlers that have chosen to help out our Official Charity’. Blue’s and Brothers Foundation.

Check out the information below if you would like to also assist them.

Proposed TK2 Challenge Rules – for agreement

1. Team composition

A TK2 Challenge relay team may consist of 4 or 6
Edit. Can be 8 per team
registered paddlers.
For the main TK2 Challenge Trophy, the team must be a mixed team.
For a 4-person team, this means 2 male and 2 female paddlers.
We need to clarify the required gender composition of a 6-person team — presumably 3 male and 3 female if we want the same principle to apply.
At all times on the water, the TK2 must contain either:
1 male + 1 female, or
2 female paddlers.
Two male paddlers cannot paddle together at any time.

2. One boat per team
Edit: You can have multiple craft, however change over rules apply. The arriving paddlers must exit their kayak prior to the departing kayakers can enter their kayak.

Each relay team may use ONE TK2 only for the entire event.
Boats cannot be swapped between stages, legs or checkpoints, except where Race Management approves a replacement because the original boat has become genuinely unserviceable.

3. Mandatory paddler changes

The TK2 must come into the bank at every designated checkpoint.
The team must change at least one paddler at every checkpoint.
Therefore, the same pair cannot simply paddle through a checkpoint together.

4. TK2 specifications
The boat must be a traditional TK2 meeting the following specifications:

Maximum length: 5487 mm
Minimum waterline beam: 533 mm
Rudder: trailing rudder positioned behind the hull
Maximum distance between cockpits: 1700 mm, measured back-to-back
Buoyancy: permanent fixed buoyancy must be fitted

Race SAFETY TEAM will physically check the boat's flotation/buoyancy. Other TK2 specifications will operate primarily on a trust/honour basis, although Race Management reserves the right to inspect a boat if its eligibility is questioned.

And yes — no submarines!

5. TK2 Challenge Trophy
The principal TK2 Challenge Trophy is for teams complying with the Mixed TK2 Challenge rules above.

This is the category we are specifically trying to build and recognise through the Challenge.

6. Bill Dunn Trophy – Handicap Relay
Teams that do not meet the Mixed TK2 Challenge team-composition requirements may still compete in the relay competition for the Bill Dunn Trophy – Handicap Relay Trophy, subject to the normal MMP relay and handicap rules.

Be Bright Be Seen day is our ‘fun’ day of the Massive Murray Paddle / MMP 415
Day Three. Picnic Point to Moama Beach. 🏖️

This represents an important Paddle Safe message from Transport for NSW and NSW Maritime

Wear your best and brightest.

The TK2 Challenge is all sorted (well, we need the rules fine-tuned)
We need a TROPHY NAME - please list below, and then we will select the best one. THANKS

URGENT:

If you have registered a team, however some of the team members have not registered, then please can you get them to register ASAP.

Here is the rego link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJLm0Ob_pBdLjdkSEK9LYUOh5tbWHubyqjA_3bwcnTfJ0Srg/viewform

A super interesting read on the Murray.