Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Tom’s choice of t-shirt on the middle day of his “build-your-own” workshop week was wonderfully ironic. He hadn’t thought twice when pulling it on in the morning and it took a while for it’s significance to be noted. It quickly became the basis for some wonderful conversations throughout the day centring around the topics of environmental considerations in surfboard production and the stagnation in material developments, alternate...
Last weekend we held our 2014 "AGM", which is less of an annual general meeting and more of an opportunity for us to invite friends old and new to...
One of the most important parts of the design cycle is evaluating the final product: does it meet the original design brief and how well does it...
Two weeks ago, James was sat in his back garden eating breakfast when Ralph called. "Would it be possible to come and build a surfboard with you...
Last Sunday dawned bright and sunny, a pleasant contrast to the weather for the World Bellyboard Championships in years past. The champs is one...
September signals the start of autumn for us here in the Northern Hemisphere. Whilst we cling on to the sunny remains of summer for as along as possible and anticipate larger, more powerful swells generated by Atlantic storms, our friends in the Southern Hemisphere are looking forward to hanging up their thicker wetsuits and spending days enjoying the beach. We heard from Shane recently, however, and his stories of winter surfing on the...
One of the nicest things about running our workshop experience weeks and sharing the joys of building wooden surfboards, is the people that we get to...
It's the August Bank Holiday weekend and the surf forecast isn't looking all that promising. All roads leading south and west will be clogged as...
The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that some new (and particularly summery) images have been appearing on our website and social media feeds...
The 2014 World Bellyboarding Championships are fast approaching us, and we're busy practising and preparing for one of our favourite "surf contests"...
Luca arrived in Cornwall a few days early for his "Build-Your-Own" workshop week with us, and it turned out to be a stroke of very good timing on his part. We've been waiting for the surf stars to align for a while now, holding out for the perfect combination of swell, sunshine, winds and tides to allow us to head out with some friends and capture some new summer imagery - and the best day coincided with Luca's arrival.
The schools have broken up and the summer holidays are here, and with them some sunshine and lovely small waves. The sea's a bit busier, but so...
Wooden surfboards, due to the way in which they are designed, built and shaped, differ from their foam cousins in that the shape of the surfboard is...
Everybody, meet Chris. Chris is the latest addition to our small team here at Otter Surfboards and we're using his arrival as a good excuse to...
This past weekend saw The Ten Board Challenge return to Godrevy for it's third year, and we were delighted to be involved with such a great event...
Wooden surfboards are at the root of many countries traditional wave riding cultures, and this is certainly the case for Papua New Guinea. Here, "splinter" surfboards have been used for generations to ride the waves that break over the reefs and black sand beaches, the boards being carved from indigenous trees or pieces of old canoes. At the end of last month the multi-award winning documentary film Splinters toured the UK with several...
Last week, thanks to a high pressure that sat right over the top of us bathing Cornwall in sunshine, we were able to slide the big, blue, doors wide...
The festival of finless-fun is back! Our friends over at Approaching Lines are putting on another grip-less gathering on the longest day of the...
On our May workshop we had the pleasure of spending a week building wooden surfboards with Kim and Shelby. A truly international couple, they are...
