Liquid Fame Surfing Documentary (Video)

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA (The Boating Channel) - Liquid Fame is an award winning surfing documentary on the first U.S. Opens Surfing Championship held at Huntington Beach, California. The show features interviews with popular local surfing pros and an exclusive interview with Kathy Kohner Zuckerman - The original Gidget!

Kathy is the real life inspiration for the fictional character of Franzie (nicknamed Gidget) from the 1957 novel, Gidget: the LITTLE girl with BIG ideas, written by her father Frederick Kohner. The book sold over 500,000 copies and in 1959 Columbia Pictures, where Frederick Kohner had been a screen writer, adapted the novel into a film. Two other Gidget films were made, as well as a 1965 television series starring Sally Field and several television movies. As Kathy says, "Nobody knows I'm a real person -- they think 'Gidget' is Sandra Dee or Sally Field."

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Wind, Waves, and A Suicidal Boat

By Chris White

(The Boating Channel / Review) -- Author Chris White is no weekend warrior heading out for well-planned adventures in a comfortable vessel to do battle with the sea’s bounty. For twenty-five years he has worked the waters off Alaska boating in minimal craft and under horrendous conditions. His commitment was to run his own commercial fishing business, beginning his career with an old rented boat that was determined to rest in peace. This slim volume of stories covers the more than two decades White has spent fishing the frigid Alaskan waters - the close calls, the bad decisions, the terrifying storms of the Bering Sea with fifty-foot waves and hundred-mile-per-hour winds, and the undying optimisim of a man who has found his purpose and his soul leaving behind the security of solid ground... More