LEGENDARY SURFERS

Free Detailed Writings on Surfing's History and Culture by Malcolm Gault-Williams and Notable Guests

Saturday, September 1, 2018

Aloha Washington, 1902

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Hawaiian George Freeth became the first person to successfully introduce stand-up surfing on wooden surfboards to North America. He started...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Mo‘ikeha and Sons

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As surfing emerged and developed in Western Polynesia between 1500 B.C. and 400 A.D., 1 successive waves of Polynesian sailing expedition...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Duke Kahanamoku (1890-1968)

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This LEGENDARY SURFERS chapter on “the Father of Modern Surfing,” Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, has been one of my most-popular over the course of...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

"Sandwich Island Girl" updates

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There is new, additional evidence that the "Sandwich Island Girl" may have existed and surfed Asbury Park, New Jersey, in the summ...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Nick Gabaldon (1927-1951)

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Aloha and Welcome to this short chapter in the LEGENDARY SURFERS Collection on Nick Gabaldon, part of the crew at Malibu in the late 1940s a...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Surf History Timeline

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SurferToday has put together "The most important dates in the history of surfing" and it is located on their website at:  https://...
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