Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
We love speding time with our customers in the workshop, sharing the experience and excitement of making wooden surfboards with your own hands over five days and often, we develop friendships too. A few weeks later, our workshoppers come to collect their finished surfboards and head out into the world for a lifetime of waves. Sometimes, we're lucky enough to see them again at our Annual Gathering of Makers that we host each year, and can...
We recently heard from Eddy, who made a surfboard with us back in 2013, reflecting on what the experience has meant to him...
This week we were stoked to receive an email from one of our 2022 workshoppers, Flo. He has recently been surfing in France and had a few words about...
Last week Ben, Eleanor and Christopher joined us to make their own wooden surfboards, check out how they got on...
Welcome to our latest workshopper profile piece. This time it's featuring Matt who has made not one, but two wooden surfboards with us!
Sebastian who made a board back with us in 2021, recently got in touch to let us know how he is getting on with his 8'2 Pieces of Eight...
Hugo made a wooden surfboard with us back in 2019, and we have had the pleasure of working with him on a few other awesome projects over the years...
Martin joined us to make his own wooden surfboard back in May 2022, last week he sent us a ride report from a recent surf on his 9'1 Wicket...
James joined us to make his own wooden surfboard back at the end of 2021, we caught up with him recently to ask his thoughts and reflections of his...
A few weeks ago, Tim stopped by to pick up the 9'1 Wicket he made with us last year. He then drove straight to the beach for the first surf...
A few months after a surfboard workshop there is a magical moment, when workshoppers return to pick up their fresh new finished surfboards!
With Spring on our doorsteps and a packed few months full of workshops to look forward to, we thought we'd share one of our favourite videos that...
Last year Pierre, Camille and Bastien made their own wooden surfboards with us, we recently caught up with them to get their thoughts on the...
Welcome to a new series where we reach out to former workshoppers and people who have ridden our wooden surfboards, to get their thoughts on our...
This week's workshopper profile is all about Rachel, who joined us back in October 2020 to make her own wooden surfboard. Check out her story below!
It's been our busiest year ever here at Otter Surfboards, full of amazing moments which we are incredibly grateful for! In no particular order, here is our top 10...
Welcome to a new feature in the Otter Surfboards Journal! Every few weeks we will be profiling one of our workshoppers who has spent a week with us,...
Until 1967, there was no such thing as a longboard. Then the shortboard revolution happened and all of a sudden what had previously been called...
More often than not, when the waves are good and we arrive at our local beach before sunrise to surf before work, we end up parked next to and...
