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Sunday found local sailing enthusiasts vying for bragging rights in the 85th annual Flight of Newport Beach, but one did not need to be a sailor to appreciate the stirring vision as the race got underway on the south side of Balboa Island. ”You’ll never see that many sailboats on a start line at the same time,” said David Beek, race chairman. “They all line up and want to be the first one across the start line.”
Beek’s father, Balboa Island resident Seymour Beek, began racing in the event in 1941 when it was Flight of the Snowbirds. He was 7 years old and captured the award for the youngest skipper.
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First female skipper of the Commodores Club helms final meeting of her term
Marie Case, first female skipper of the Commodores Club, Newport Beach, conducts the final meeting of her year-long term Friday at Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club in Corona del Mar.
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“Commodores Cruising in Cars Getting Coffee” was the theme of a consolation event suggested by Marie Case as she became the first female skipper of the Commodores Club in Newport Beach just as the pandemic was beginning.
“I came up with the ‘Commodores Cruising’ idea because [fellow member] John Curci would Zoom into the meetings from his vehicle with his phone on the dash and it looked like [the web series] ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,’” Case recalled.