Because of surfing’s boon in America during the post-war era, it is sometimes perceived as a “modern” sport. But it is actually a very old sport. Surfing is believed to have originated in the Pacific Ocean sometime between 1500 B.C. and 400 A.D. Polynesian culture is filled with ancient legends...

Click here to get Ab Jenkins’ whole story plus some cool old racing photos in the print edition of Barracuda #11. Utah’s 100 square-mile Bonneville salt flats are an expansive wasteland that claimed the sanity and lives of many settlers during the 1800s. Creeping across the sparse, blinding...

Jeff Wasserman was born in 1943 and grew up in Southern California. Like so many other youngsters of the late ’50s and early ’60s, Wasserman got bit by the car bug during his teenage years and set out to build a hot rod in the garage of his parents. In 1961, while still in high school, he...

Norwegian explorer/scientist Thor Heyerdahl built an ancient-styled balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki and sailed it from Peru to Polynesia to prove that ancient South American Indians could have reached Polynesia. The voyage of his raft Kon-Tiki is just one of his many true-life adventures. Heyerdahl was also...

    His columns appeared in the Chicago Tribune and were syndicated in 800 papers nationwide. A hard-working and prodigious writer, he delivered five columns a week throughout most of his 33 year career. He was given almost every journalistic award there was, including a 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary,...

Dan Robichaud is a California native who started surfing before World War II. He did most of his surfing in Huntington Beach, riding the heavy, solid, redwood boards that were the best boards available at the time. He worked as a lifeguard in San Diego and Long Beach before joining the service during...