Last year Stuart Murray and Inoke Tuhukava took this on for the first time on a 14ft Vortice and a 12ft HoloHolo with both finishing around the 17hr mark. This year the SUP division is official and entries are now open.
The event is on the 24/25th October.
The Hawkesbury Canoe Classic is a fun paddle with a serious purpose. Each year around 600 paddlers travel 111 km overnight in the moonlight, down the Hawkesbury River from Windsor to Brooklyn, to raise money for charity.
Over the years the race has build into a great community event, with paddlers, their landcrew and hundreds of volunteers converging on the banks of the Hawkesbury at Windsor on the day of the race to enjoy the camaraderie and spirit the race has built.
The race has an excellent safety record, with the long-term health of paddlers over-riding any other considerations.
The first paddlers leave Brooklyn at 4:00pm on Saturday and pass 18 safety checkpoints during the night. The fastest craft arrive at Brooklyn in less than 10 hours, but the average time is closer to 15 hours.
The Classic has been run since 1977 and is made possible by volunteers who put in hundreds of hours of time throughout the year, landowners who allow us the use of their land for the weekend and the paddlers and their support crews.
The Classic has raised more than $3 million for medical research, with our major charity being the Arrow Bone Marrow Transplant Foundation.
For more info
www.canoeclassic.net/ 
Stuart Murray in last years event
water skied and fished the hawkesbury for years,most spectacular river in australia,awesome tides,cold as ,so a great effort to sup it,sound like 17hours of torture,these masochist would like the murray river paddle or the faser island challenge
