Laird Hamilton
Laird Hamilton is an American bigwave surfer, coinventor of towin surfing, and an occasional fashion and actionsports model. He is married to Gabrielle Reece, a professional volleyball player, television personality, and model. Hamilton and his family split their time between residences in Maui, Hawaii, and Malibu, California.
Laird was born Laird John Zerfas in San Francisco on March 2, 1964, in an experimental saltwater sphere at UCSF Medical Center designed to ease the mothers labor. His father, L. G. Zerfas, left the family before his first birthday. While he was an infant, Laird and his mother, Joann , moved to Hawaii. While still a young boy living on Oahu, Laird met with 1960s surfer Bill Hamilton, a bachelor at the time, on Ppkea beach on the North Shore. Bill Hamilton was a surfboard shaper and glasser on Oahu in the 1960s and 1970s and owned a small business handmaking custom, highperformance surfboards for the Oahu North Shore big wave riders of the era. The two became immediate companions. The young Laird invited Bill Hamilton home to meet his mother. Bill Hamilton married Lairds thensingle mother, becoming Lairds adoptive father.
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