Rick Villalobos

Summary of Qualifications

Active coastal, interisland and blue water sailor. Cruising and racing experience in US mainland, Hawaii, Caribbean, New Zealand, Polynesia and Europe. Crewed in a Pacific Cup Regatta from San Francisco to Kaneohe, Hawaii. Skippered a sloop from Tahiti to Hawaii. Boat owner in Hawaii with extensive and frequent interisland mileage across challenging channels. Extensive training and experience in navigation and night sailing. Trained while living in Europe with the UK Royal Yachting Association at facilities in Portugal and Spain. Good team player, strong boat and crew management skills, avid hiker and traveler, retired US Air Force Colonel. Certified as a Remote Emergency Medical Technician with added USCG recognized qualification of Medical Person In Charge.  

TRAINING/CERTIFICATIONS

2001 US Coast Guard Auxiliary Boating Skills and Seamanship Course

2002 The Moorings Charter Company - Sailing Skipper Qualification (Sailboats up to 40 ft.)

2004 US Naval Sailing Association - Cruising Skipper Qualification

2004 Safety of Life at Sea Course by US Sailing in 2004 at the US Naval Academy

2010 Marine Diesel Maintenance and Repair familiarization course by a certified Marine Diesel
Specialist.

2008 Royal Yachting Association and United Kingdom Maritime Coast Guard Agency -
Yachtmaster Coastal Skipper Certificate of Competence- (Sailing Vessel with Auxiliary
engine). The Curriculum emphasized Yacht management, skippering skills, boat handling,
general seamanship, navigation, safety awareness and knowledge of the collision
regulations, meteorology and signals.

2008 Royal Yachting Association and Maritime Coast Guard Agency (UK) - Maritime Radio
Operator Certificate of Competence

2008 Royal Yachting Association - First Aid Course

2012 United States Power Squadron’s America’s Boating Course

2013 Amateur Radio Technician License (HAM)

2016 Safety of Life at Sea course by US Sailing, 2016 at Kaneohe Yacht club, Hawaii

2016 Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), US nationally registered

2016 Remote Emergency Medical Technician certificate by Remote Medical International

2016 Medical Person in Charge certification – meets USCG requirements allowing work as
medical authority on a maritime vessel; by Remote Medical International

CHRONOLOGY

1983 Started sailing dinghies on the Panama Canal while assigned to Howard Air Base

2001 Chartered and skippered in New Zealand a Nolex 25 sailboat for a four-day cruise among
the Bay of Islands.

2000 Joined the Kaneohe Yacht Club in 2000 and became actively involved in offshore racing,
Cal 20 racing, race committee, and Hawaiian island cruising. Sailed as well Capri 22's and
Rhodes 19.

2002 Chartered and skippered a Beneteau 35 in French Polynesia for a ten-day cruise to Bora
Bora, Raiatea, and Tahaa

2003 Communications staff for Trans Pac Los Angeles to Honolulu Race

2003-04 Member of the Pentagon Sailing Club in Washington DC. Raced on the Potomac,
and did overnight cruises on the Chesapeake Bay. Served as basic sailing instructor

2004-08 Member of an IRC racing team on a Jeanneau 39 racing weekly in Lisbon, Portugal and
along the nearby coast

2004-08 Chartered and skippered several times a Bavaria 37 for cruises along the Algarve Coast of
southern Portugal

2005 Sailed Kornati Islands of Croatia as crew on a Nauticat 38 for one week

2006 Sailed From Mutter Croatia to Dubrovnik and back as crew on a Nauticat 38 for ten days

2007 Skippered a Bavaria 37 in the Bay of Gocek, Turkey during a one week charter

2008 Skippered a Hanse 40 on sail trips between the Spanish Canary Islands of Tenerife, La
Gomera, and La Palma during a 30 day period

2010 Crewed on a Standfast 40 during Pacific Cup 2010, raced for 12 days from San Francisco to
Hawaii

2010-14 Chairman, Kaneohe Yacht Club Membership Committee

2010-16 Co-Chair of the Kaneohe Yacht Club Cruising Fleet; organized and led cruising flotillas on
interisland cruises

2011-13 Board Member Kaneohe Yacht Club

2012 Own and skipper a Beneteau 393 since 2012 to present. Skippered this vessel while
cruising interisland in Tahiti, Moorea and Society Islands. Skippered the boat and a crew of
four while crossing from Tahiti to Hawaii in 2012 during a three-week non-stop voyage of
2,500 miles.

2012-

Present Skippered numerous Hawaii interisland voyages to Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and return to
Oahu on a Beneteau 39.

2014 End of Race Compliance Inspector for Pacific Cup race from San Francisco to Kaneohe

2014 Skippered an interislandcruise in the Hawaiian Islands from Oahu to the Big Island and back
as well as from Oahu to Kauai on own Beneteau 39; over 700 miles of sailing in challenging
Hawaiian channels

2014 Weekend sails out of Boqueron, Puerto Rico on a 35 ft sloop

2016 Led a Kaneohe Yacht Club 15-boat cruising flotilla from Oahu across the Kaiwi channel to
the island of Molokai on a three-day outing.