The Game-Changer (GC) is a hybrid hardshell-inflatable whitewater kayak that reversibly reconfigures into a backpack. Hard-boat performance on the water. True portability off it. Engineered from first principles in New Zealand.
Register Interest — Mk6 Run →A composite shell forms a rigid exo-skeleton that drives modern hard-boat performance. A premium inflatable inner sits protected inside. The two come apart, pack down, and reconfigure into a backpack.
Composite hull, sidewalls and ends for the responsiveness you love about modern whitewater boats — protecting a high-spec TPU inflatable inner built to premium packraft-grade standards. A hard composite coaming runs your standard whitewater spray deck — no implosion, no deck explosions.
Any river that can be hiked into is now in range.
Dual storage compartments (main rear + nose-tip front) turn your gear into a tuning dial — trim, stability, roll inertia. Load low for a planted feel. Forward-trim for big water. Aft for boof clearance on steep, low-volume runs.
TIZIP closures and an elastic packing system. Easy to pack, easy to access. Take the kitchen sink — or just the kit you need to commit deeper into the backcountry. Anything you carry in on your back has a place in the boat.
A foam-cored composite layup with Kevlar under the seat. Stiff, strong, impact-tolerant — designed to feel like a monolithic one-piece kayak. Modern hull thinking inspired by Waka, Lettmann and Jackson, executed in composite — not plastic.
A demonstration on the water, and a walk-through of the boat's features and upcoming upgrades for the Mk6 prototype run, straight from the builder.
Tell us what you like in this short market-research survey. It will inform the price and the size of the Mk6 batch. If you want one of these boats, this is the most useful thing you can do.
The GC pairs a modern composite shell — flatter planing surface, deeper chines and sharper edges than plastic moulding allows — with a premium inflatable inner. A patented interlocking system holds the two together as a single, stiff, high-performance kayak. Pull it apart and it becomes a backpack you can hike with.
Hardshell-inflatable hybrid. ~270 cm × 69 cm. 12–16 kg depending on spec. Built for 65–95 kg paddlers running up to hard whitewater.
Designed, tested and refined in the rivers it was built for. Modern hull thinking — executed in composite, not plastic.
A limited Mk6 prototype batch is the next step. Demand from this round determines the path to a V1 commercial build.
The Mk6 prototype run is next. Demand from this round decides whether the GC becomes a commercial V1 or a community joint venture. If you want one of these boats, the most useful thing you can do is tell us — and tell us what it's worth to you.
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