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A Wharram Pahi 42 catamaran named Mahi departs A Coruña, Galicia, on a 55-mile coastal passage south to Camarinas with one crew member, Ben, aboard.7:43 The skipper has spent roughly a week in A Coruña on winter marina rates, using the time to surf local breaks with his girlfriend Marit, explore Galicia in her Volkswagen Transporter T5, and lash down warped deck planks before departure.8:13 Leaving the Ria required two to two-and-a-half hours of tacking under a Yankee headsail before clearing the headland.15:45 Once offshore, Mahi averaged around five knots in 15–18 knots of beam-to-broad-reaching wind, hitting eight knots at peak despite a fouled bottom that the skipper plans to scrape again at Camarinas.15:35 A Northinex autopilot handled wing-on-wing steering without incident.21:04 Fishing with a hand line and deep-diving lure produced one strike immediately after deployment, then nothing.14:33 Camarinas offers daily dolphins, grocery stores, water, and trash disposal, but passing North Atlantic low-pressure systems are holding the skipper there until conditions ease.26:45 The plan forward is solo 40–50-mile coastal hops down to the south coast of Portugal for continued refit work, with an Atlantic crossing as the long-term goal.27:17

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