Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The last couple of journal workshop entries have begun with a comment on how busy our summer has been, which we are all so grateful for here at Otter Surfboards. We’ve completely fallen back in love with what we do after some seriously quiet months earlier in the year and we’ve rounded out our August workshop trilogy in such a fun way with Henry, here’s the lowdown of his week…
Simple pleasures. They're wonderful things aren't they? Take bodysurfing for example; the simple act of swimming around in the waves and getting...
Summer has absolutely flown by for us here at Otter Surfboards, with three surfboard workshops in August keeping us busy, the old adage about time...
Why Fish? When summer starts to show its face each year, surf shops and magazines begin their annual round of promoting various “Fish”...
Summer in Cornwall is in full swing! August has been a busy month for us here at the Otter Surfboards workshop, it got off to a great start when Tim...
Yep, we make our surfboards out of wood. It’s different to the industry standard of polyurethane foam, wrapped in fibreglass and polyester resin. The reason we make our surfboards out of wood has a few layers to it, so we’ll leave it to James to explain. He’s broken it down into 6 sections, so feel free to skip to ones of particular interest. Performance A Personal Connection Stewardship of The Land Locally Grown ...
Last week was special for a number of reasons, not least that we had a father and son making a surfboard together in the workshop and there were...
This month the Body Board turns 50 years old so we decided to find out more about the huge influence on the surf world that is Tom Morey, and also...
It’s not often Cornwall is blessed with both waves and sun during a workshop, but last week was definitely one for the books! Here’s our attempts...
Summer in Cornwall often means small waves and busy lineups, which can sometimes impact negatively on quality surf time. Our answer to this?...
Last week we were joined here in the Otter workshop by Chris and Phil who came to make their own sustainable wooden surfboards, Chris made a 6’4 Woodeburner and Phil made a 7’2 Coaster. Here’s a round up of how the week played out behind our blue doors.
If you follow Otter Surfboards on social media, you may have come across our weekly posts documenting our encounters at Porthtowan Beach on a Monday...
During the sunny and calm days of last week we welcomed Sam to the Otter workshop to make his own wooden surfboard. The lack of waves at the bottom...
For those of you that have bought one of our handplane kits, this How To guide will take you through each step of the making of your bodysurfing...
In the last week of October, we were joined in the workshop by Harry and Chris. Both had travelled from the other side of the UK, to join us, but...
Do Make has now been out in the world for a couple of months, since publication day on the 3rd of September. I’ve never considered myself a writer, so it has been quite a journey to take something from a conceptual dream, right the way through to a finished, printed and published book. It began when I headed up to Cardigan, on the wild west coast of Wales, to run a couple of handplane workshops for the wonderful folk at the Do Lectures...
During the first week of October, Rachel and Jerome came to join us to make their own surfboards. Rachel made herself a 9’1 Wicket, that was set to...
This Sunday, the 29th of November at 11am, I'll be in conversation with Mark Shayler as part of the Digital Craft Festival, live on Zoom and...
The bank holiday at the end of August is often the day that kicks off our most popular workshop of the year. It’s normally the week that fills up...
