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Surfboard Focus: 7’4″ Island Hopper

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?"

Surfboard Focus: 9’1″ Wicket

British like cricket: that was the over-arching theme when we set out to design and build a more performance orientated mal to sit at the...

Surfboard Focus: 5’10” Fetch Fish

We're going to start our "Surfboard Focus" series of blogs this week (we'll be looking at one board every month or so), and because it's a Friday,...

The National Trust Project

Early last year this project began with excited talks from Tom Clarke, the head Gardener from Trelissick, who'd recently felled a storm damaged tree...