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Speedloader Throw Bag Featured

 
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Gear Info

Brand
LiquidLogic
Gear Type
Accessory Type
Model Year
2010
Designer
Shane Benedict / Woody Callaway
Material(s)
Nylon
Available Sizes
50ft.
The Liquidlogic Speedloader throw bag. This has been a fun project that we have spent a fair bit of time on over the last several months. What you see here is the final prototype. It needs a little refining on the sewing aesthetics in this photo, which we have polished off now. The function is 100% there.

Woody and I (Shane) were thinking about throw bags and ways that we could improve them and we came up with the idea of making it really easy to load. We both thought right away of times that we didn't want to get out bags out on the river because we didn't want to have to reload them. Even simple things like lowering your boat becomes that much more a hassle if you have to spend several minutes loading your throw rope back in its bag.

The original concept was a clam shell design that was two sided. It made for a good bag but we had some problems with excess fabric. It also didn't stand up well which is the other great benefit of this bag. When you are loading it you can put it on the ground and the bag stands up, opens up and makes it super easy to load. We tried many different protos of the clam shell design but couldn't get it to a refined refined. So just recently we went to the three sided design that opened well, closed well, and stood up like it had a tripod which it turns out it did have. The three sew sides give it much more stability while sitting on the ground, rock, boat, whatever.

The Speedloader will be shipping the beginning of 2010. Right now we are doing it as a basic tag type bag. Its a 50 footer. Its smaller diameter rope like all the other bags, except they don't stand up, and load like this one. We haven't solidified the exact rope at this moment but it will be at least industry standard for this type of bag. We also hope in the future to have a full rescue version as well.

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Great buy, I would recommend it to anyone thinking of buying a throw bag.

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Expierenced paddler, 19 years of age.
Pros / The Good
Light, Strong Rope, Easy to throw & obviously easy to load back up!
Cons / The Bad
I honestly cannot think of any... except for maybe more color choices.
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Always good news to hear about people thinking and tinkering instead of apathetically accepting the status quo !
Nice work guys, keep us informed on the progress , please.

Http://bit.ly/detroitkayak

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Not affiliated or associated in any way - let's hope the project lives up to expectations
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