Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Our Annual Gathering of Makers is our chance to say thank you; an opportunity for us to invite everyone who has supported us these past few years by spending some of their time and hard earned money with us making their own wooden surfboard back for a weekend of surfing, sharing stories and good food and drink. Every "make your own" wooden surfboard workshop week that we run has up to three people attending so not only does it allow those...
The British summer holidays are bellyboard season; that time of year when old plywood boards are pulled out of the backs of sheds and garages, dusted...
July was a good and busy month for wooden surfboard workshops here at Otter, and at the very end of the month we welcomed Marc Koska to the...
Last weekend we joined the wonderful team from Surfers Against Sewage at Somersault Festival in North Devon for a weekend of mud, music and...
For many families, school summer holidays involve going away somewhere and spending a week or so together making memories and enjoying each others...
A few weeks before Claire arrived in the UK from California, a large package arrived at the Otter Workshop addressed to her. When we opened it and unwrapped what was inside, we found four beautiful planks of Californian redwood.
It's not a race to complete the list of daily tasks involved in making your own wooden surfboard with us here, but you'd never have known that if you...
Kurt arrived at the workshop on Monday morning, having driven his pick-up truck half way across Europe from Switzerland to come and spend a week...
It’s lovely catching up with friends who have built surfboards with us in the past – that’s why we throw our “AGM” celebration every...
This week we've had Alan and a whole lot of sunshine in the workshop with us. Whilst the beach at the bottom of the hill has been intermittently...
The first workshop week of our 2015 programme ran this week, and it was wonderful to welcome a friend from just down the coast into the workshop. James works and surfs in St Ives, where he runs Keebunga surf store and develops innovative solutions to common issues faced by surfers, such as how to keep your electronic car key safe whilst you surf.
Sometimes a great swell coincides with a busy week of work, and there's nothing much that you can do about it. It's a great problem to be faced...
Not many twelve year olds can say that they built a wooden surfboard in their half term holidays. Alex can, though.
Tom’s choice of t-shirt on the middle day of his “build-your-own” workshop week was wonderfully ironic. He hadn’t thought twice when...
Two weeks ago, James was sat in his back garden eating breakfast when Ralph called. "Would it be possible to come and build a surfboard with you...
One of the nicest things about running our workshop experience weeks and sharing the joys of building wooden surfboards, is the people that we get to meet and spend a week with. They are all, without fail, incredibly interesting and engaging individuals and it is a real pleasure for us to spend a week getting to know them whilst we work and to learn from them about the work that they do. This past week we've been joined by Kelvin and Ben;...
Luca arrived in Cornwall a few days early for his "Build-Your-Own" workshop week with us, and it turned out to be a stroke of very good timing on...
Wooden surfboards, due to the way in which they are designed, built and shaped, differ from their foam cousins in that the shape of the surfboard is...
Last week, thanks to a high pressure that sat right over the top of us bathing Cornwall in sunshine, we were able to slide the big, blue, doors wide...
