GL - thanks for the additional information and thoughts on traveler knot.
What we don't know is where the two ends from your traveler are tied. Do they both tie into the same block? What if the block were to attach into the loop of a butterfly knot and you were to use the sheet bend to attach them to each other at the T with the tail going off to the cleat?
Here are two pictures of the way the PO had traveler set up, which I am replicating but with new hardware and line.
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You can see the knot we are talking about in the first picture leading up to a block, "tail" of line then leading to the cleat. The knot closes a loop in the traveler line. Loop runs through the two deck mounted blocks on either side of the transom, and the "top" of the loop has the block for the main sheet.
Not to get off track, but for clarification, the main sheet starts from a becket on a block at the rear of the boom, down & through the traveler pulley, back up to the aft boom block, forward to a racket block, down to swivel base cam cleat mounted on the center board housing.
Back to knots.
Yes I am going to use a butterfly loop for the block on the top of the "triangle. "
https://www.animatedknots.com/alpine-bu ... -loop-knotNot following your thoughts on a sheet bend as I don't have two ends of line. I need a knot (less bulky than a bowline (but that is the right idea) that allows me to make / close the loop for the traveler and run a long (3 foot) tail of the knot to the cleat.
Thanks!