thank you all for the advise, we've just sprayed silicon lubricant into the slot, and we are confident that this will work, and for those interested (steve) my sail number is 1262 which i think is a dart.

Hi guys I'm relatively new to Dart sailing (just over half a season) and the 15 is infact the first cat I've ever layed my hand on, but there are two small questions i must ask; 1. the mainsail is increadibly stiff to hoist, even with two pulling the halyard and one feeding the sail into the slot, s...