Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
New Years resolutions are funny old things. Many people labour over them in the days and weeks leading up to the moment when the clock and the calendar tick over into another year, only to let their promises to themselves quietly slip away come March. Here at Otter Surfboards we have a small, core, set of values that we keep at the forefront of our minds whilst we work and which are our "resolutions" year on year. They don't change and...
Well it's the last Friday of 2013, which means that it's our last blog post of the calendar year. As the year draws to an end it's not uncommon to...
Perhaps you've left everything until the very last possible minute and are worried that you've missed your chance? Don't worry if you have and...
There’s just six days to go everyone! We’ve been holding off on the Christmas sales e-mails but please forgive us for jumping on the marketing...
The week before last we welcomed a film crew from BBC Countryfile into the workshop, who were in Cornwall producing a segment about wooden surf...
Come and join us in the workshop next weekend as we and our neighbours here at Krowji open up the doors to our workshops for the Christmas Open Studios event. If you've ever wondered how we make our surfboards and handplanes, are curious to check out the projects on our trestles at the moment, or are starting your Christmas shopping earlier than us then Open Studios is a great opportunity to come in and talk story with James as well as...
Last December we delivered a 9’4” Seasaw to Dr Dan Forman in Swansea, South Wales. Dan heads up the Coastal Otters Project at Swansea...
The clocks "fall" back next weekend which means that we're at that time of year when a delicate balance can be struck. As the days become shorter...
The October issue of Cornwall Today has been out for a couple of weeks now, and those of you who may have picked up a copy based on the wonderful...
We’re closing the doors to the workshop next week (w/c Monday 16th September), loading the van and driving up to the Big Smoke. It...
A few changes have been afoot at Otter Surfboards this week…if you browse around our site you'll see that the first of the Autumnal updates have appeared in the form of some new workshops that we'll be running here. We will now be running one-day workshops for handplanes (£110) and bellyboards (£140) on select Saturdays throughout the year, so you'll be able to come in and spend a day with us producing a lovely wooden sled to enhance...
You may have noticed the phrase "going off to the laminators" appear on this blog in the past. When Otter Surfboards moved from the farm into our...
We are so honoured to announce that two of our surfboard projects, The Storyboard and our One Tree collaboration with The National Trust, have been...
This weekend the annual Boardmasters Festival returns to Newquay (7th-11th). The Boardmasters has been running in one guise or another since...
This is the second blog post that we are publishing in our short "Down The Line" series, which aims to share with you (our friends, customers and...
"A man who makes things with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman. But a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist." It was incredibly flattering when we read this quote in the short introduction to a movie project that we've just got involved with. And this is one project that we're getting awfully excited about! A few weeks ago we were approached by the...
We were delighted to welcome 10xEuropean Longboard Champion Ben Skinner into the workshop this week to get started designing a wooden big wave gun...
The saying goes that it never rains, but it pours. Today feels like one of those days here because so many seeds that we have been planting over...
The last few weeks have delivered some really good waves here in the South West of the UK. In fact it's been a winter of note, which is why we've...
