Dan G wrote:
Thanks for your replies. It sounds like keeping GRP gliders in
trailers looks like the answer, although has anyone experience of
using all-weather covers (e.g. Jaxida) year-round?

I've no direct experience of covers myself, but it seems to take nearly
as long to take the covers off a glider as to rig it. The exception
seems to be Open Class gliders, though even there the difference can be
marginal.

As someone who nagged a syndicate of which I was a member into keeping
our Astir in its trailer, rather than a hangar, I can say that once we
were in practice it took less time to rig the aircraft than to extract
it from the back of the hangar. With practice and a few rigging aids
(trestles and a dolly to roll the wing around) I'd think a modern
2-seater would be ready to fly in about 30 mins (and never allow more
than 3 people to be involved in rigging - each extra person doubles the
time it will take!).

Once members are in practice, rigging each day is really no big deal. It
also helps to encourage XC flights; the glider has to be de-rigged
somewhere so a field is really not much worse than the airfield.