Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
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 handful of images attached containing stories of a successful surf trip. Matt made a 6’4” Woodburner with us last June and surfed it close to home in Cornwall through the autumn and winter before taking it away for a wide-ranging trip across the Indonesian archipelago. When we recently sent out...
Our friend Tony had quite the complete workshop experience with us over the first six months of this year; he fitted in sessions and days at the...
You don't have to go very far, or for very long, to feel as though you've broken out of your routine and had a bit of an adventure. A couple of weeks...
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...
We’ve had a rather unusual surfboard stored in the workshop for the past year or so; it’s a twelve feet long replica of a Tom Blake style finless paddleboard and it’s spent time alternately propped up in the corner or stacked atop the timber racks. When visitors spot it they usually end up asking what it is and why it’s here because it’s so different to everything else in the workshop. The short answer is that it’s here because 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...
Commit your all to everything that you do. Commit to doing the best work that you can, so that you can stand by it. Commit to doing right by...
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...
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...
After August delivered us a mixed bag of weather and waves (to put a positive spin on it), the first Sunday of September at least dawned sunny and clear for the 13th annual World Bellyboard Championships. The waves weren't anything to write home about, being small and choppy north-westerly wind swell, but nobody really seemed to mind - at least it was sunny for the day of the champs! Thanks to the times of the high and low tides things got off...
Tealing We’d like to introduce all of you to The Coaster, the latest addition to our range and a surfboard that we’ve been struggling to keep...
Every surfer around here is worn out at the moment, and in a really good way. April has been a bumper month for waves, with back-to-back swells,...
The 6’10” Jetty was one of the first shapes that we developed here at Otter Surfboards, and it's one of the most recognisable surfboards in our...
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...
This deep into winter many of us rely on the woodburner in our front rooms to provide warmth through cold evenings. At Otter Surfboards we also rely on woodburners of a different sort right through the summer months too. The Woodburner is the larger fish in our range measuring up at 6'4" x 22¼" x 2¾" and is designed with speed in mind, carrying a little extra volume to tackle summer slop or to counteract the extra weight of winter neoprene....
One of the most important parts of the design cycle is evaluating the final product: does it meet the original design brief and how well does it...
It's the August Bank Holiday weekend and the surf forecast isn't looking all that promising. All roads leading south and west will be clogged as...
The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that some new (and particularly summery) images have been appearing on our website and social media feeds...
