Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
In the episode five of our Boardrack Briefing series, James shares the design details and inspiration behind the popular 7'2"Coaster. A 7’2” midlength tracker with a refined, pulled in, template and a rounded pintail. The Coaster is designed to shine in anything from waist-high peelers to overhead points and reefs. At 21½” wide and 2¾” thick it’s fast to paddle, handling “meatier” waves with ease, and the drawn out tail...
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...
“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...
One windy Monday morning in the beginning of March we were joined at the workshop by the lovely Matt Barr, of the Looking Sideways action sports podcast. Matt is a real heavyweight in the world of boardsports media; a former editor of Whitelines snowboard magazine, co-founder of All Conditions Media, and the founder and presenter of Looking Sideways. His mission is to "cover the most interesting stories in action sports and other related...
Bodhi joined us in deepest, darkest December last year to make a custom 6’2 hybrid shape over five days hunkering down in the workshop as wind and...
In the fourth episode of our Boardrack Briefing series, James takes you through the design specifications and performance characteristics of...
Luca is a close friend and, as we believe that friends are the family you choose, we consider him one of the family. We first met whilst in Sri...
As has now become tradition here at Otter, as we drop into a new year (nay, a new decade!) we like to take the opportunity to look back at the last...
Like most workshops, ours is fuelled by hot drinks and enthusiasm. Buying some new mugs for the workshop could have been a quick and easy task; we could have gone to a supermarket and picked up a matching set for a pound or so a piece; we could have assembled a collection by visiting a few charity shops; or we could have ordered a set of tin camping mugs and had our logo etched into the enamel. But we make things by hand and wanted to support a...
With Christmas almost upon us (gulp!), it seems a good time to tell you all about our last postage dates and some bundle ideas we've pulled...
In the second episode of our Boardrack Briefing series, James talks about the performance longboard in our range of hollow wooden surfboards,...
Often, when we run our workshop weeks, we hear feedback from customers about how time flies past through the week and Friday seems to be here...
“Surprise me” is a great challenge to receive from a customer ordering a custom surfboard, and it’s also brave! But that’s exactly what...
The Silver Surfer Journal is a project close to our hearts and our home, that we hope some of you may decide to support if you are able to. The “creative side hustle” of one of our wooden surfboard course alumni, Jon Herbert, The Silver Surfer Journal is a self-published book that documents a decade (2008-2018) of unique surfing journal entries by local septuagenarian surfer Andrew Forrest. “As the old saying goes, don’t judge a...
As autumn beds in here in the UK, the attention of many surfers, both here and across Europe, turns to southwest France. Whilst Californians have...
For the second of our August “Make Your Own Wooden Surfboard” workshops, we were joined by Matt and Henry. Matt runs a company that designs...
Last Saturday we welcomed back a large cast of our “workshopper” family for our 2019 Annual Gathering of Makers when we gather together for a...
