Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
This week we caught up with Ornella when she came to collect her 6'10 Jetty!
Kevin stopped by last week to pick up the wooden surfboard he made with us last year...
Simple pleasures. They're wonderful things aren't they? Take bodysurfing for example; the simple act of swimming around in the waves and getting...
As autumn beds in here in the UK, the attention of many surfers, both here and across Europe, turns to southwest France. Whilst Californians have...
At a low enough latitude, which for surfers here in the UK means the north of Scotland and the Outer Hebrides, on the summer equinox when the sun...
Booking on to one of our workshop weeks is like booking a holiday. In fact, it is booking a holiday, but one that is pre-populated with daily activities and that you’ll return home from with a brand new wooden surfboard, new friends, new skills and perhaps greater self confidence. The first question that we often get asked after booking is about where to stay and possible ways to get here; we have a document that we send out detailing all of...
I’ve spent a fair chunk of my adult life now at sea on wooden vessels – be they surfboards or sail boats. Holding the line of a 5'5, 8kg...
Back in August three of our friends, David Smith and Jack Middleton from Surfers Against Sewage and Jack’s girlfriend Brogen Latham, travelled...
Last September Mat headed down to the southwest corner of France for a few weeks with his friends from Surf Simply. Because September and October are...
We like to keep in touch with everybody who has ever joined us to make their own surfboard, and it’s incredible when we receive an e-mail with a...
Two weeks ago, whilst the surfing population of southwest England stared in frustration at the small, wind-blown, waves lapping on their shores, James was enjoying an hour of regular shoulder-high waves every day at the push of a button. He was spending the week at Surf Snowdonia, where we had been invited to run a “Make Your Own” wooden surfboard workshop course, and ironically enjoyed better waves than Chris and Mat who stayed behind at...
In the middle of March, James and our good friend Tony took a few weeks off the making of Tony’s wooden surfboard with us to head over the Irish...
Over Christmas and the New Year James and Liz finally headed off on their slightly belated honeymoon, trading the wind and rain of the northern...
In the first week of November last year, just as the temperatures really dropped and winter announced its arrival, we took a few days off to head...
Last September, just as the last of the summer warmth was preparing to give way to autumn, James managed to sneak in one final surf in boardshorts at...
The sun didn’t set for 72 hours: Last weekend James went away with five of his oldest friends (to celebrate one of the group’s impending marriage) to the Svalbard Archipelago – a group of islands far inside the Arctic Circle. One of the group, Steve, is an Arctic guide and Svalbard is his home base, so it was agreed that four of them would travel out to visit him and they would spend a few days under the midnight sun on a...
As the sun starts to rise earlier and earlier each morning and the evenings slowly draw out, we’re presented with more opportunities to go...
