RE: Winter time building
3 in one year a club record? First year I started 3D I went thru one a month! Cheap ARFs, but I wouldn't even wait to crash one before starting the next one. I piled up 4 UCDs that year alone. I was just too stubborn to keep them 1 or 2 mistakes high. Since going to pattern I've only lost 2 in the last year and half, and one was a failed regulator.
I've got a Big Dirty Birdi 2+2 on the table right now, Curare short kit & super decathlon lined up next. The Super D is 84" and I have a G38 for it. I intend for it to be my float plane.