Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
With Christmas fast approaching and because of the handmade to order nature of many of our products, we need to let you all know when our last dates are for ordering from us are: - For stock items such as clothing, swim fins, calendars, magazines or gift vouchers, the last date for orders is Tuesday December 20th. - For items that are hand-made to order, like bodysurfing handplanes or wall-hangers, we need to receive your order by...
No two workshops are ever the same, and the people that arrive here on a Monday morning and end up stood out in front of our big blue doors holding...
If you take a left out of the end of our road, follow it a mile or so to the end and turn right down the valley, you'll meet the Atlantic Ocean at...
We've just taken delivery of our 2017 calendars, and they're available to buy now over on our products page. We selected twelve of our favourite...
Back in spring we visited Ireland and spent a couple of weeks surfing our way down the wild West Coast. One of the beaches that we stopped off to...
Long-range groundswells born of far off hurricanes and the first rumblings of winter mix with the last gasp sunshine of summer in autumn, and the results are what we wait all year for. Crisp mornings with golden light, cold sand under feet, and small yet powerful waves held sharp by offshore winds. On the quiet beaches, dogs chase tennis balls and jackets are the new uniform; people walk across the sand, rather than lie on it. We engineer our...
There's no entrance fee for the sea; it's a free natural resource that so many people get immeasurable pleasure from. At worst you might have to pay...
During the last week of September, we were joined by Jac, who was celebrating his 21st birthday by making a 5’10 Fetch with us. He travelled to us...
Late last spring we were visited by Chris, Rob and Matt, who were travelling the length of the British Isles documenting makers, producers and...
Last weekend saw our fourth Annual Gathering of Makers, where we invited all the people who have shared a week with us in the workshop crafting their...
The Sunday of the first weekend in September has, for over a decade now, been the day that bellyboard aficionados converge on Chapel Porth beach just down the road from us for the annual World Bellyboard Championships. This year though, the team behind the Champs decided to observe a fallow year (just as Glastonbury festival does every now and then) to let the waves grow back and catch their breath. In lieu of everyone’s favourite...
Having somebody join us from overseas for a workshop week to make their own wooden surfboard is not uncommon, but having a completely...
Well not quite, but almost. This past week, Patagonia have been touring the UK showing their latest range of wetsuits; wetsuits that are neoprene...
A life for me without using my hands, without making, and specifically without making things out of wood is completely incomprehensible.
Last September Mat headed down to the southwest corner of France for a few weeks with his friends from Surf Simply. Because September and October are...
We've spent a fair bit of time over the last month loading and unloading bits of our workshop in and out of the back of our van, as we've spent a couple of weekends at the Art in Action and Port Eliot festivals whilst attempting to carry on as "business as usual" in between. We're back and properly unpacked again now following a weekend at the incredible Port Eliot literary festival last weekend, and have had a chance to reflect on a really...
We like to keep in touch with everybody who has ever joined us to make their own surfboard, and it’s incredible when we receive an e-mail with a...
Robert Chapman (known around the Otter workshop as Rob) joined us last November to make a surfboard as a gift for his son who’s currently living...
It's festival season once again, and with the hope that this year's quota of rain has already fallen on Glastonbury, we're making preparations to...
