Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Last Friday we were lucky enough to host the UK premiere of The Plastic Project’s film Dispatches From a Plastic Planet at our annual Boards, BBQ and Beers open evening. This year the event once again sold-out, and for the first time in the four-year history of B>B>B we had a perfect summer’s evening with warm weather and clear skies under which to gather.
New Year, New Model Sometimes we set out to design and make a new wooden surfboard model, and sometimes one develops seemingly organically. The...
As one calendar year clicks over into the next, we like to take the opportunity to pause and reflect on the twelve months just passed so that we can...
Last weekend, we held our Annual Gathering of Makers. It's a special occasion for us, when we invite all of the makers who have joined us over the...
On Friday June 23rd we opened up the doors of our workshop, and of the Eco Park's barn opposite us, and were joined by an amazing crowd of people for...
It’s easy as a small business to always be looking forwards; to plan for the future and keep on pushing ahead. It’s all too common to overlook the positive impact of reflection as a tool that can be used to both inform future decisions and also to provide a bit of affirmation that actually, we’re doing alright. A lot can happen in a year. Here’re some of the best bits of our last one: New Zealand 2016 started for Otter...
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...
One of the really special things about sharing what we do through our workshop courses is the fact that we almost inevitably form new...
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...
Tonight the clock will tick over past twelve o-clock and we'll all be entering a brand new year. It's a time to be looking forward and making plans...
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...
September signals the start of autumn for us here in the Northern Hemisphere. Whilst we cling on to the sunny remains of summer for as along as...
It’s been a good summer this year. Memories of past years of howling nor’westerly winds and incessant mizzle were banished and we spent the...
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...
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...
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 photographs of the board in action. Add a little sunshine and surfing in boardshorts into the equation, and you can imagine how stoked (and envious) we were here in the workshop when we received an e-mail from Haris at the start of February. Haris had asked James to shape him a 9'0" long x 28" wide...
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...
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