On Aug 30, 8:15*pm, Don Johnstone wrote:

In the case of the LAK it is a heavy beast even without
the water, as anyone who has been conned into
rigging one will testify.

Sorry to go off-topic but the LAK-12 (to which you must be referring,
though this glider is a LAK-17) is 100 pounds lighter than an ASW-17.
So when you say "heavy beast" I assume you are referring not to the
glider itself, which is on the light side for a 20.5-meter. You must
be referring to the fact that the wings are one-piece. All that is
needed is a decent wing-rigging dolly and so forth and it becomes a
one-man operation. The dolly carries the weight, not the human. But
without proper knowledge of how to align the wings it will be
difficult to assemble. With proper knowledge and rigging aids it is a
rather easy one-man operation. The secret to rigging a LAK-12 is
finesse, not brute force. Disassembly is rather easy since no finesse
(critical wing alignment) is required. I suspect the same is true of
many 15-meter gliders.

Regards,

-Doug