Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Danny is a good friend of ours. We have known him since 2015, when he came to make his own handplane with us and, since then, we have stayed in contact and have witnessed part of his incredible journey from stroke survivor to bodysurfing titan! He is currently raising money for stroke survivors, with the intention of supporting them to use water time as part of the recovery process. As part of the money raising he will be running/walking...
March has been a pretty good month for surf at the bottom of the hill, we have had swell rolling in and offshore winds greeting us at the beach for...
Last week the workshop was filled with sawdust, interesting stories and good coffee as we were joined by James, Nick and Alessandro, who came to make...
We love the process of making a surfboard and then surfing it, such a simple pleasure, but sharing the experience and watching it come full circle is...
Our first workshop of the year was a family affair; with father Pierre, daughter Camille and son Bastien all making their own wooden surfboards, with...
The waves in Cornwall have been pumping, so it's been a special month for Monday Morning Surf Club, click here and read on to share the stoke! January got off to a stormy start as we avoided a blown out Porthtowan and headed to the slightly more sheltered Portreath. The waves were dumpy with a bit of size and power to them, helped along with an onshore wind. We had great fun bodysurfing into the closeouts and riding the smaller...
In previous journal entries we have looked into the history and function of both the single fin and twin fin setups, now its the turn of perhaps the...
Our last surfboard workshop of the year came around so quickly! A great way to cap off a great year; here’s how everything played out…
Back in December we were lucky enough to be invited up to the London Surf Film Festival, where one of our films had been shortlisted in the...
For anyone new to our Boardrack Briefing series; it's a chance for us to take a closer look at our range of wooden surfboards, with a detailed and...
So its the end of another crazy year, and pandemic aside, we have actually had a pretty good one! We feel really lucky to have had such a busy time coming out of lock down, and we thought we'd share our highlights...
At the end of November Mike, Mickey and Philippe joined us to make their own wooden surfboards, here’s a round up of how they got on!
Monday Morning Surf Club (MMSC) means getting in the sea, and appreciating and sharing whatever waves we are greeted by on a Monday morning at...
Autumn is a great time to be in Cornwall, the swell is picking up, the pubs are lighting their cosy fires and our workshop has been bustling; with...
A thirtieth, fiftieth and sixtieth birthday surfboard workshop for Tommy, Mike and Chris respectively; who all joined us in early October for our...
It all began in the 1930's when pioneering waterman Tom Blake looked for a way to maintain some directional control whilst surfing his hollow, box-railed, paddle board. The sharp, square, edges of Blake's "cigar box" paddle board sheared water away from the rails and the boards slid out of control easily until he came up with the idea of bolting a small metal keel from a water ski onto the bottom of the board to help it keep going in a...
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...
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...
