A few years ago Jeff Smith described an apparent problem with his GBI 29 traveler where he was unable to move the car on the stainless steel bar. I have the same problem. When I try to use the control line (the one to aft that runs from one end to the other end of the traveler bar), I have to pull on it inordinately hard to get the car to move at all (as in fractions of an inch). I'm trying to determine why this is the case.

In playing around with the assembly and looking at the relative tension of the different loops of the line, it seems odd that when I attempt to pull the car to starboard, the loops on the port side are tight (preventing movement to starboard) and vise versa. The overall length of the line does not allow me to introduce any additional slack in the line; that is, the stopper knot at the end of the line is at the cleat . Is it possible that my line is too short? I received it directly from GBI, so I'm sure that it was not modified.

Hoping for some guidance.

Thanks,
Chris