Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Well, Christmas Eve has well and truly crept up on us again following a flurry of activity throughout December. We’d like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, and hope that over the festive season you have a lovely few days catching up with family and friends. That’s exactly what we’re planning on doing, but things will be back to normal before you know it as we start to stoke the fires in preparation for 2016. If you’re able to...
The festive season sees almost everyone taking a few days off to spend time with family and friends, and for many of us that means lighting the fire...
Our final workshop of 2015 has just wrapped up, and it was a great week to finish the year on. Every single one of the “Make-Your-Own” wooden...
Commit your all to everything that you do. Commit to doing the best work that you can, so that you can stand by it. Commit to doing right by...
Wastage is something that we avoid at all costs, and that is a sentiment shared by our friends over at Riz Boardshorts, who produce beautiful printed...
Next weekend, we’re loading up the van and driving up to London for a rather special event. We’ve been invited by the team behind the Do Lectures to join a line-up of exciting (and up-and-coming) brands at a very unique Christmas Market – the Do Market. The Do Market is a one-day event that will be held on Saturday November 28th at Lant Street Wine in SE1, and it’ll feature seventeen stalls including ours. We’ll be bringing along a...
Ordinarily, the people who join us to build their own wooden surfboard over the course of a workshop week have a fairly similar understanding of...
In the first week of November last year, just as the temperatures really dropped and winter announced its arrival, we took a few days off to head...
365 days;12 months; four seasons; one year. We all need a bit of help organising our time and remembering important dates and events, be it a...
For the past couple of years, our friends over the hill at Finisterre have been working on developing a wetsuit designed specifically for surfing...
What a week it’s been; this time last week a coach load of surfers, including three-times world surfing champion Tom Curren, big wave surfers Greg Long, Brad Gerlach and Ramon Navarro, leaders of the enviro-surf movement, renowned surf scientists and surf industry leaders, arrived at the Bedruthan Steps Hotel just up the coast from us at Mawgan Porth for the 2015 Global Wave Conference. In the days that followed, waves were shared,...
Last Saturday, Michael woke up with no idea what he would be doing for the next week; a few months previously his wife had told him that she was...
Ben Cook has been a friend of ours for a good few years now, and we often meet up to ride waves with him when we head to surf spots on the coastline...
Our Annual Gathering of Makers is our chance to say thank you; an opportunity for us to invite everyone who has supported us these past few years by...
Following an exhaustive period of research and development (which you can translate as us making a surfboard and riding it as often as we could...
After August delivered us a mixed bag of weather and waves (to put a positive spin on it), the first Sunday of September at least dawned sunny and clear for the 13th annual World Bellyboard Championships. The waves weren't anything to write home about, being small and choppy north-westerly wind swell, but nobody really seemed to mind - at least it was sunny for the day of the champs! Thanks to the times of the high and low tides things got off...
Tealing We’d like to introduce all of you to The Coaster, the latest addition to our range and a surfboard that we’ve been struggling to keep...
The British summer holidays are bellyboard season; that time of year when old plywood boards are pulled out of the backs of sheds and garages, dusted...
July was a good and busy month for wooden surfboard workshops here at Otter, and at the very end of the month we welcomed Marc Koska to the...
