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Looking like "a brown Mercury (whose) heels are winged," as Jack London had called him years before in Hawaii, George Freeth aquaplaned with apparent effortlessness in September 1916 in San Diego.

Looking like "a brown Mercury (whose) heels are winged," as Jack London had called him years before in Hawaii, George Freeth aquaplaned with apparent effortlessness in September 1916 in San Diego.

George Freeth: King of the Surfers and California's Forgotten Hero

The native Hawaiian moved to California in 1907. He forever changed California and its image to the world.