I had 'gravity,' that's my daughters boyfriend (so called as he's usually asleep somewhere) get himself off the couch and give me a hand.

With one person bent over the front beam and pulling on the tramp and the other trying to feed it in the slides we succeeded in getting the tramp stretched out to its correct length, but with the last foot or so pulling out of the slides on each side. It refused to be fed in and pulled out every time. Very frustrating.

When I get the chance I will pull the tramp off and restitch the boltropes before liberally soaking the tracks in silicone spray and retrying it and 'Thank you' for the great idea!. I can rig the mainsheet off the front beam to get more effort into pulling the tramp while having a bit more muscle to get the ropes to slide in. Hopefully will get the chance to do it in the next few days

cheers

Mark