Having actually finally left Horta suitably prepared for the final leg of our ocean travels, what could possible go wrong now?! We are about 240 Nm north east of Horta and now into our 3rd day of travel. The weather has been very varied, with sun, rain, wind and no wind, so we have been sailing and motor sailing alternatively. Our repaired rigging is looking good, and the battery that boiled on the way into Horta a few weeks back has been disconnected from circuit. So, Day 1; the second of our 4 batteries boiled itself. This we discovered was caused by an alternator fault which resulted in too much charging voltage. We let it cool down, wiped away all of the acid that spat out, topped it back up with distilled water and it now seems OK, unlike the alternator which does not seem OK. A morning's investigation revealed a complicated problem as we have 2 interconnected alternators with a clever switch box. The solution after much thinking and head scratching has been to disconnect both alternators electrically, and remove the fan belt from one of them to actually stop it from turning. So far, this appears to be working OK. We can still charge the batteries with our wind generator, solar panel and prop shaft generator which turns when we sail along, so we are not dead in the water, although power is being used reasonably conservatively. WIth that out the way, we could start to investigate the mysterious leak under the galley floor again which appeared on the way between Bermuda and the Azores. Only occurring when we heal over to starboard, it has once again proven a major challenge to find. With the cockpit locker emptied yet again this morning, I spent about an hour looking at every single pipework fitting, join, through hull fitting and seacock in there. Nothing has shown any obvious signs of a leak, although one pipe connected to a seacock which is firmly switched OFF did appear slightly damp. This used to cool our old fridge, is not in use, and is now plugged up with a stopper and jubilee clip. Only time will tell now when we start rolling again under sail. No doubt that will be at 2 am, 'boat breaking hour'! On the better side of life, we are eating well. Avocado and garlic prawns, pork in mustard and mushroom sauce with rice, and freshly brewed coffee for our first dinner, and a fine pesto, pasta and parmesan cheese dish last night by Clare, and a surprise dinner by Mark tonight. Given the pork may be slightly greenish, I suspect we may be having deep fried pork with curry sauce, followed by milk-of-magnesia pie for pudding as a preventative....We'll see! Anyway, we're all well, in good spirits, and appear to have missed the worst of the storm that was forecast to hit us, it passing further north tomorrow than originally predicted. Mark is trying out some new fishing lures at the moment, so standby for the next fishing newsflash....