"We've just had a miserable night. We unwisely mixed with another electrical storm - but this time we were in the eye of it and it lasted 12 hours. It was really indescribable, but to say the lightning was like daylight is an understatement - it was like a thousand arc-welders all at work at the same time. Then there was the constant thunder! The storm cleared about an hour ago, but we're left with a sullen overcast sky, quite a big sea and 27 - 30 knots of wind. The wind and sea don't worry us - Hygeia is more than a match for that - but the electrics are a bit too supernatural for my liking. Neither David nor I slept at all - we were dressed up ready to abandon ship when the lightning finally struck. On second thoughts, how could we abandon Hygeia?"