Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
We recently finished a beautifully handcrafted custom Paipo, so we thought we would share some more about this wonderful wave-craft and latest addition to our range!
If you have a special someone in your life who is drawn to the surf, but you don't really know the first thing about wooden wave-craft, we've got you...
This week we have had 2 custom wooden surfboards on our trestles at different stages in the making process, here's James to tell you more...
Every now and then we are reminded of projects that we have been involved in, it's great to look back and appreciate them, and we are thankful to...
Remember that time when we made a wooden surfboard for King Charles? Here's James to tell us how it all came about...
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?"
We managed to get some great shots of James in his element one evening a few months back, shaping a commissioned 6'2'' Swift...
Mike came to the workshop a couple of years ago with his eldest son to make their own wooden surfboards, so thought it was only fair to bring his...
On Friday 6th March, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales signed one of our 7’10” Clipper wooden surfboards to signify and celebrate the...
“Surprise me” is a great challenge to receive from a customer ordering a custom surfboard, and it’s also brave! But that’s exactly what...
Over the course of the last year we’ve been developing a range of three flat-water exploration stand-up paddleboards. We spent this summer refining and testing these three models and two paddle options and are now (having dropped a few teasers and left them in the background of some workshop photos) excited to be launching them for sale and as a seven-day workshop course.
Surfing is often referred to as “The Sport of Kings” thanks to its ancient history as the preferred pastime of Hawaiian kings and queens, but it...
Abandon all hope of glory Let it fall from your hand, Float through grit And settle to the sand. Swim on comrades The Closeout is...
Every once in a while we receive a request from a customer asking for something a little different. We love these little forays into the wider...
This weekend the annual Boardmasters Festival returns to Newquay (7th-11th). The Boardmasters has been running in one guise or another since...
The name paipo (pronounced pipe-oh) is derived from the Hawaiian "Pae Po'o" which means to surf headfirst. Essentially these surfboards are simply thin wooden bellyboards surfed prone in exactly the same manner they were when Captain James Cook dropped anchor in a Hawaiian bay in 1778, when he described the locals riding waves prone on boards that were between 3' and 6' in length. These boards were popular in Hawaii and elsewhere were...
We were delighted to welcome 10xEuropean Longboard Champion Ben Skinner into the workshop this week to get started designing a wooden big wave gun...
