Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
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 morning. Usually in the form of a video following some of the Otter Team as we experience whatever conditions we find at 7am... This is Monday Morning Surf Club.
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...
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 celebrate the beauty of our cedar, with some wonderful grain patterns and almost completely knot-free planks for her deck and bottom skins. Jerome made a 7’4 Island Hopper that had our classic ‘double sandwich’ layup, with two strips of poplar sandwiched by three dark strips of teak in the...
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...
Until 1967, there was no such thing as a longboard. Then the shortboard revolution happened and all of a sudden what had previously been called...
A week or so after re-opening the workshop post-lockdown, a delivery driver dropped off a large, heavy parcel. We had no idea what it was,...
We haven’t run a surfboard workshop for a few months, so when we knew Ben was going to join us for our first surfboard workshop since February, we were initially nervous and a little apprehensive, but had an underlying feeling of giddy excitement. We were having the same feelings we had leading into our first surfboard workshop nine years ago and were going take Ben along the journey, with all the emotions, of creating his first...
At our 2017 Annual Gathering of Makers we were joined and entertained by The Cheddar Experiment (the side project of Reef bass player Jack...
Back in February we welcomed Adrien into the workshop. It feels like such a long time since we flung open our workshop doors and welcomed anyone...
Good Timber By Douglas Malloch (1922) The tree that never had to fight For sun and sky and air and light, But stood out in the open...
In the episode five of our Boardrack Briefing series, James shares the design details and inspiration behind the popular 7'2"Coaster. A...
If you’re missing the sea and surfing, then Lockdown Surf Film Festival might be just the tonic to help you stay connected to surf culture and sustain the stoke through these times of severe social distancing. “These are unprecedented times. Self-isolation. Surf bans. Lockdowns. We wanted to pull together to support our surf & creative communities across the globe, to keep the stoke fires burning. So, along with motley crew from...
“We tend to think of landscapes as affecting us most strongly when we are in them or on them, when they offer us the primary sensations of touch...
Right now, the restorative power of making and reconnecting with your own two hands, and of staying connected with each other, has never been more...
On Friday 6th March, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales signed one of our 7’10” Clipper wooden surfboards to signify and celebrate the...
