This is not a bag we brought in for someone trying to shave every possible gram off a packraft setup. It was built for professional river use. Raft guides, rescue technicians, instructors, and river crews who are on the water day after day and need equipment they can depend on for a long time.

The bag itself is built from 950D Cordura with a reinforced PVC bottom, floating foam base, reflective material, glow stick attachment, and a simple Velcro closure. It is designed to get wet, get thrown, get stepped on, get shoved back into a raft, and come back out again tomorrow.

The standard Morice bag carries 20 metres of 8 mm high visibility floating rope with a tensile strength of 7 kN, approximately 1,570 pounds.

That rope choice is intentional.

This is a throw bag, and we want it to throw well. The 8 mm line allows Morice to pack a full 20 metres of floating rope into a compact bag while maintaining plenty of strength for its intended job: getting a line to a swimmer.

For professional rafting and technical rescue, heavier mechanical rescue systems should have their own dedicated ropes and equipment. A throw bag does not need to do every job in the rescue kit.

Keeping those roles separate means a guide can carry 20 metres of usable floating line on their waist without carrying a larger, heavier systems rope everywhere they go.

Every belt comes with a dedicated flip line pouch.

This is very much a rafting focused system. The pouch gives your main flip line its own place on the belt instead of stuffing it into your PFD.

That means less bulk when you are climbing back into a raft, quicker access when you actually need the line, and more room in your PFD for your pin kit, gloves, snacks, cigarettes, or whatever else somehow ends up living in there.

We still recommend carrying a complete pin kit and the rescue equipment appropriate for your trip and training.

The point is simply to keep the two pieces of equipment a raft guide reaches for most often right where they belong.

Your throw bag is ready to throw.

Your flip line is ready to flip.

A flip line within reach beats one buried in your PFD.

The Morice setup is available with either a standard two thumb release buckle or a quick release configuration, depending on how you carry and use your equipment.

There are lighter bags. There are more complicated bags. There are bags with more features.

That is not really the point of this one.

We carry Morice because we wanted a professional river guide's throw bag that could be used hard, repeatedly, for seasons at a time.

It is straightforward equipment made for people who work on rivers.

That is what attracted us to it in the first place, and that is why we brought it to Canada.