Duplicat - Monday 16 December

No satcoms yesterday, apparently on Saturday night we crossed the boundary between systems and didn't realise we had to reset ours to the American one - but all working fine again.
Weather appalling, since Thursday we have had between 22 and 32 knots of wind with some heavy squalls - highest wind speed 42 knots, fastest boat speed 18 knots and all with a little piece of jib up. Boat tracks well down the waves and we feel safe if not a bit battered and tired - just moving around is hard and the catering is a lot less fancy now than earlier in the trip! Biggest swell -estimated at 6m and many near that size yesterday. But 349 to go!!!!!