It seems like ocean sailing can be a mixture of being nearly battered to death by the elements on one day, followed by no wind and a flat sea on the next. We put the engine on last night at 9 pm as the remnants of the bad NE wind disappeared and the sea died down. By 6 am this morning, the wind had dropped to almost nothing, and the sea had gone glassy. Although far more relaxing than the previous few days, some wind would be very useful at the moment as after 3 days at sea, we are only 200 Nm from Bermuda - we had hoped to be 360 Nm by now! Still, there have been a number of positive sides to the slow trip. We have seen three turtles this morning (still trying to establish which variety), all stationary in the water, with fish under them. I seem to remember a BBC programme referring to the turtles stopping at a 'cleaning station' where other fish eat all of the barnacles and weed off the turtle shell, then it sets off on its way again, so this may be the case here. We have seen a number of Shearwaters flying around close to the boat, and the sky is blue, totally clear with no clouds. I have taken a look around the deck to investigate our leak during the bad weather, and have found a possible suspect, namely, our water filling spout on the deck which appeared to have a small gap through the deck, although we won't know until the next bout of bad weather which I am certain we will receive before reaching the Azores! The shorts are back on, as well as the sun lotion and lipsalve, and you would never know that the last few days had been so unpleasant. Our weather information suggests that by 9 pm this evening the wind will be picking up to a 15 knot south westerly, and we should be sailing again, engine off. This will be great as we only have a limited amount of fuel, and certainly not enough to motor all of the way to the Azores! You can see from our Winlink Position Report that we are heading roughly north east. The aim is to get as far north towards 38 Deg N, but avoiding any bad storms that do collect around this latitude. It's a calculated gamble on being in the right place at the right time, and I look at the forecast for 3 days ahead to try to deduce where we would be best placed to make the most of the weather. Then we try to sail to the right spot in good time. This is clearly proving a challenge today!