Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
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 come. Breathe in Earth’s aura, The magnificent clear. Where you go you’ll stay Held under your fear. Swim on Comrades The Closeout is come. Kick with resolve The most euphoric whim. Hoots and shakas Outlook is grim. Swim on comrades Closeout...
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...
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 under wraps these past few months because we’ve been so excited to talk about it. The first Coaster that we built over the course of spring was also the first surfboard that we've made entirely using English poplar, a light, straight grained and strong timber. As soon as we got it back from the...
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...
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 work? Could we possibly do anything to improve it further? Because it invariably involves spending some time catching waves the evaluation our products is one of our favourite parts of the process, but we also find it immeasurably valuable when our designs are tested by independent, skilled and...
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...
Take a walk along the Pier with us. The Pier is currently the longest surfboard in our range' it's our take on a traditional mal at 9'6" x 22 7/8"...
The one that a lot of you have been waiting for has finally arrived…introducing our 5’6” all cedar Seadar! Earlier this year we casually...
This past month it has finally felt as though Summer has arrived here in the south west of the UK - on some days at least! And when we get a high pressure parked over us, with clear, windless, blue skies and small waves, one of the surfboards on the demo rack here at the Otter workshop that barely has a chance to drip-dry between surfs is the Pieces of Eight. Another one of our great all-rounders, at 8'0" x 21 3/4" x 2 3/4" the Pieces of...
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...
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...
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,...
