Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
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...
Last Saturday, James and Liz became Mr and Mrs Otter. Hooray!
In the mid-nineties, an ex-pat Aussie lifeguard residing in Hawaii named Andy Cochran started to develop a new type of swim fin. His aim was to produce a fin for ocean lifeguards that was comfortable enough for prolonged use, powerful, and suitable for a wide range of users. He shaped a positive mould from a wooden block and then had the first prototypes produced in Australia before bringing them back to Hawaii to be tested by Mark...
Last weekend we joined the wonderful team from Surfers Against Sewage at Somersault Festival in North Devon for a weekend of mud, music and...
For many families, school summer holidays involve going away somewhere and spending a week or so together making memories and enjoying each others...
A few weeks before Claire arrived in the UK from California, a large package arrived at the Otter Workshop addressed to her. When we opened it...
