With the winds now slightly increased we are making good progress and our 24 hour distance yesterday was 160 miles, which is more like it! During the night we had our first squall of the trip, just before we switched watches the wind changed a bit and the rain started. I helmed through the squall as I was the quickest to get my waterproof jacket on, which soon passed over. We were on the look out for squalls for the rest of the night but the two that we spotted didn’t come to anything. We have a few boats around us this morning and Henry is currently chatting on the radio to a non ARC boat called BEA that has been nearby overnight. Apparently they were trying to contact us for a few days, and sounded very excited when Henry replied this morning!