Tinny Rally - Murray River Edition

What’s Included

• Entry into the greatest water based rally on earth
• Charter Bus back from Mannum to Mildura
• Start party
• Finish party
• Taking part in all the silly fun we organise – you’ll be taking part in a daily activity/challenge for points on the overall rally leaderboard, a bit of fun to participate and meet the other adventurers, gives everyone some more stories to tell as well
• All our knowledge and experience from trips down the river, so you’ve got the best information to plan and undertake the trip, have an awesome time and seeing all the best things. You’ll receive a “Tinny Rally Entrant Event Information Package” after registration with much of this info.
• Joining a community of other dead set legends
• Event t-shirt
• Event stubbie cooler
• Memories of a lifetime

Not Included & What you need in order to enter

• Accommodation.
• Food & drinks. 
• Fuel. 
• Equipment. A portable toilet is required to minimise our impact on the river. 
• Tinny. 
• Current Boat Licence, Boat registration and boat 3rd party Insurance , and all maritime safety equipment as required by law

Who is this for

• People who can handle being self sufficient in the outdoors, can handle good and challenging days, fit enough to carry fuel from the servo, outdoor savvy enough to travel 726ks and not run out of fuel etc.
• People who like the adventure of camping almost anywhere you want
• Social people who like adventuring with a bunch of other legends
• People who love adventuring by boat

Who is this not for

• People who want a guided tour or cannot survive on their own in the outdoors without someone telling them what to do. If you need to be told what to do like a child this is not for you. Do not join this rally if you cannot look after yourself in the outdoors.

*This is an unsupported trip through areas with patchy phone service and a long way from breakdown and medical assistance. You need to be comfortable with remote wild travel in the outdoors. Do not join this rally if you are not.

**If you don’t have a tinny or much boating experience but are savvy in the outdoors and are full of adventurous spirit – don’t rule yourself out – you can buy a tinny inexpensively on Facebook marketplace, get sufficient experience in your boat and take part in this adventure. The Murray is an inland river, considered calm waters and easy to navigate as you can just go downstream.

Conditions of Entry & Refund Policy

Entry Fee

$745 per person

Child 12 years and under are half price

How Much will it cost to participate

• Entry fee. As above
• Accommodation. You can camp for free all of the way. The first Friday and Saturday nights and last Saturday night it is more convenient to book a cabin in the caravan parks that we leave from and finish at. This allows you to look your equipment in the cabin when you drop your car and boat trailer at the end.  Cabins with 3 beds (ie share between 3 people) are $150/night
• Food & drinks. For the duration of the rally and the start and finish party.
• Fuel. For the length of the rally. In my 25hp 12ft tinny I used 300L of fuel and 4L of two stroke oil
• Avenza online maps for the route, downloaded to an app to your phone $30
• Boat 3rd Party Public Liability  Insurance.  You will need to show proof of this to participate in the rally (this is  required by our insurers for the event) . If you do not already have it for a small boat it is approx $230 a year.
• Equipment. All your usual camping gear plus enough jerry cans for fuel, portable toilet, and folding trolley (suggested to help get your jerry cans back from the servo). All of these can be found second hand on facebook marketplace. Budget $200 for a tinny if you do not already have them.
• Tinny. If you do not have a tinny, you can find them on Facebook marketplace. Look for a minimum size of 12ft long and 20hp motor (to fit 2 people if you pack light). You can get this for $2k and up. Budget another few hundred dollars to get the motor serviced and check the tyres and wheel bearings on the trailer. And a couple of hundred to register the boat and the trailer if they do not come registered. 

How does dropping my car/tinny off work?

• Saturday morning: drop your boat in the water where you are staying at Apex Riverbeach caravan park Mildura, (or if Apex caravan park is full, then at  River Gardens holiday park Gol Gol). Leave your team mate to watch it and your gear, or book a cabin and lock it in that. Or make friends at the start party and organise the watching of boats if/as required.
• We leave from Apex because it’s a great sandy beach and good boat ramp, so it’s the best of all the options to start from. The river is wide and not as much traffic as closer to town.
• Drive your car and boat trailer to Mannum (~4hr drive), to leave them at a place we have organised
• Bus leaves there Mannum at 12:30pm to come back to Mildura
• Bus drops you off at Apex or Rivergardens holiday park at 5.00pm. 
• We have done our best to choose the best locations from the available options to leave your boat in the water whilst you drop your car and trailer off, please take sensible precautions as you see fit to secure your boat and belongings. There are no trees to chain your boat to at Apex, as it’s a sandy beach, but you can chain it to another boat on the rally. We have not had problems with people leaving boats and cars, and have not heard of anyone having problems leaving them at these locations during the day and overnight.
• We have a bus organised to give everyone a lift into the start party from either caravan park at 6pm. You will need to make your own way home (share a taxi, or you could go to one of the clubs for a drink and catch their courtesy bus home)
• The finish party will be at the Pretoria hotel, which is the best pub in Mannum and overlooks the water. You can walk to the pub from most accommodation in Mannum
• When you finish on the last day at Mannum we will have a car to shuttle you out to your car & trailer just out of town