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 full-river demonstration, and a walk-through of the design decisions that shaped the boat — straight from the builder.
Tell us. A short market-research survey — it sets 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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