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The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
For anyone new to our Boardrack Briefing series; it's a chance for us to take a closer look at our range of wooden surfboards, with a detailed and accessible overview of a different shape each episode. Here James talks us through the 7'4'' Island Hopper...
In the episode five of our Boardrack Briefing series, James shares the design details and inspiration behind the popular 7'2"Coaster. A...
In the fourth episode of our Boardrack Briefing series, James takes you through the design specifications and performance characteristics of...
In the second episode of our Boardrack Briefing series, James talks about the performance longboard in our range of hollow wooden surfboards,...
In the second episode of our Boardrack Briefing series, James talks about the smallest fish model in our range of hollow wooden...
In our new web mini-series, Boardrack Briefings, James will be talking about each of the hollow wooden surfboards in our range with a different model featured in each episode, running through the features of each surfboard and explaining his design process. First on the trestles is the popular Pieces of Eight.
New Year, New Model Sometimes we set out to design and make a new wooden surfboard model, and sometimes one develops seemingly organically. The...
The 7’10” single fin pintail had been back from the laminators for a few weeks, taking up residence on the workshop wall whilst we waited for a...
Tealing We’d like to introduce all of you to The Coaster, the latest addition to our range and a surfboard that we’ve been struggling to keep...
The 6’10” Jetty was one of the first shapes that we developed here at Otter Surfboards, and it's one of the most recognisable surfboards in our...
This deep into winter many of us rely on the woodburner in our front rooms to provide warmth through cold evenings. At Otter Surfboards we also rely on woodburners of a different sort right through the summer months too. The Woodburner is the larger fish in our range measuring up at 6'4" x 22¼" x 2¾" and is designed with speed in mind, carrying a little extra volume to tackle summer slop or to counteract the extra weight of winter neoprene....
Take a walk along the Pier with us. The Pier is currently the longest surfboard in our range' it's our take on a traditional mal at 9'6" x 22 7/8"...
The one that a lot of you have been waiting for has finally arrived…introducing our 5’6” all cedar Seadar! Earlier this year we casually...
It’s been a good summer this year. Memories of past years of howling nor’westerly winds and incessant mizzle were banished and we spent the...
This past month it has finally felt as though Summer has arrived here in the south west of the UK - on some days at least! And when we get a high...
Let us introduce you, a little more formally, to The Island Hopper. At 7'4" it's the Otter Surfboard's "one board quiver" model, perfect for longboarders looking to step down in length a bit, or for shortboarders who want a little extra flow. It's a board that answers a question that we asked ourselves: "If you were going away on an extended surf trip and had room for only one surfboard in your luggage, what would you take?"
Pilot cutters are the vessels that worked the coastline between the Isles of Scilly and Bristol during the latter part of the 19th Century. Their...
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