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Talkin’ Boats with Augusto ‘Kiko’ Villalon – Ancon Marine Consultants

Augusto “Kiko” Villalon has done it all — and continues to.

He is a lifelong sailor, a designer, marine engineer, accident investigator, and entrepreneur who founded and ran for two decades Marine Concepts in Cape Coral, Fla., which manufactured the tooling for some of the biggest powerboat names in the business.

Sailing was Teddy’s ultimate release

Kennedy found solace after tragedy, exhilaration in better times on the waters of Nantucket Sound

Kennedy saw sailing as a metaphor for life. Edward M. Kennedy’s funeral service resonated with stories of his passion for sailing. In the memories of those who knew him as a friend and sailor, the Massachusetts senator was never more in his element than at the helm of his yacht Mya, reveling in a blustery wind and a hard chop on Nantucket Sound.

Eight days on a capsized 23-footer

With the Coast Guard ending its search, it was a stroke of luck the three anglers were found

They weren’t supposed to make it. After six days, the Coast Guard had suspended its search for three Texas fishermen whose 23-foot power catamaran flooded and capsized off Texas. The Coast Guard had scoured 86,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico — an area the size of Minnesota — only to come up empty-handed.

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Across the Atlantic in a 21-foot flats boat

Two brothers recently completed an 8,312-mile voyage that took them across the Atlantic in a 21-foot open boat, hoping the feat will help them raise money for charities that benefit wounded soldiers.

Florida residents Ralph and Robert Brown, 50 and 52, respectively, got under way June 27 from Tampa in the center console catamaran flats boat. Ralph Brown, owner of Dream Boats in Hudson, Fla., designed the cat (www.dreamboats.net). It took the brothers 76 days to complete the passage, which was done in legs and took them up the East Coast to Canada and then across the Atlantic, arriving in Germany Sept. 10.

British teen takes solo sailing crown

Mike Perham is now the youngest circumnavigator, the title Zac Sunderland held for less than two months

One month and 11 days after California teenager Zac Sunderland completed his voyage and made headlines as the world’s youngest solo circumnavigator, the slightly younger British teen Mike Perham claimed that title. At 10 a.m. Aug. 27, Perham crossed the finish line between Lizard Point and Ushant, France, completing a 30,000-mile youthful odyssey that began Nov. 18, 2008.

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