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ben skinner on a wooden surfboard made for the national trust by james otter

Big Wave Ben

We were delighted to welcome 10xEuropean Longboard Champion Ben Skinner into the workshop this week to get started designing a wooden big wave gun for him.  Ben is himself a surfboard shaper as well as being the most successful British competitive surfer to date, and is collaborating with us and Surfers Against Sewage to design and build a surfboard for him to paddle into a wave of significant size off the British coast this coming...

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Harris surfing his otter wooden paddleboard
A Review From The Road

It's always great to get feedback from clients about the boards that we've shaped them, and particularly so when the feedback is accompanied by...

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James Otter Nick Holden National Trust Wooden Surfboard Handover at Chapel Porth Landrover
The National Trust Project

Early last year this project began with excited talks from Tom Clarke, the head Gardener from Trelissick, who'd recently felled a storm damaged tree...

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Mat Arney walks back across the sand at Gwithian with his wooden Otter Surfboards Pier.

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