Description Corona del Mar was once California\'s premier Surfing spot, holding the sport\'s first Pacific Coast competition in 1928.
Attempts to tame Corona and to make the Newport Beach harbor mouth safe for watercraft drastically altered board riding, destroying the great wave-making machine" of Corona and creating the surf giant of today known as the "Wedge." Read about Newport before World War II: experience the Great Rescue of 1925 by Duke Kahanamoku and others, the rum runne.
Description Corona del Mar was once California\'s premier Surfing spot, holding the sport\'s first Pacific Coast competition in 1928