Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
George Greenough is the barefoot genius and inventor whom many people argue was the catalyst for the shortboard revolution of the mid-1960s. Born in Montecito (near Santa Barbara, California) in 1941 to a wealthy and well-connected family, young George was known to be somewhat of an outsider with a great affinity for the ocean. After a brief flirtation with stand-up surfing, by the late 1950s he was primarily surfing kneeboards and air mats...
Living out of the back of a van seems to have become incredibly en-vogue in recent years. A sure sign of that is when a parody film, such as the...
It’d be fair to say that we’re fans of a proper tea break here at Otter Surfboards; downing tools for ten minutes a couple of times during the...
It's fairly common for visitors to the Otter Workshop to comment on James' lack of footwear. For most of the year, in the workshop, on the beach and...
Surfboards vary in appearance as much as the human beings that use them; many become a vehicle for expression both in the way that they are ridden...
Over Christmas and the New Year James and Liz finally headed off on their slightly belated honeymoon, trading the wind and rain of the northern hemisphere’s winter for the warmth and sunshine of New Zealand, the “land of the long white cloud”, for a few weeks. Despite it being their honeymoon and not a surf trip, James packed a surfboard and wetsuit anyway claiming it too good an opportunity to miss even if he only managed to get in the...
We’ve had a rather unusual surfboard stored in the workshop for the past year or so; it’s a twelve feet long replica of a Tom Blake style...
Our first “Make Your Own” workshop week of 2016 has just finished up, and it was a great way to kick off this year’s series of courses. We...
We’re excited to share with you this week the news that, this spring, we’ll be heading up to Surf Snowdonia in North Wales to run a week-long...
Abandon all hope of glory Let it fall from your hand, Float through grit And settle to the sand. Swim on comrades The Closeout is...
The roof of our workshop has been a bit noisier than usual this past week. That’s because when it wasn’t drilling down with rain, we could hear the muffled sounds of reggae coming from a radio and the careful footsteps of a team of guys who have been installing a rack of solar panels on our roof in between the rain showers.
As the New Year begins, it’s nice to take a moment to reflect upon everything that happened over the past twelve months. We think that applies to...
Well, Christmas Eve has well and truly crept up on us again following a flurry of activity throughout December. We’d like to wish all of you a very...
The festive season sees almost everyone taking a few days off to spend time with family and friends, and for many of us that means lighting the fire...
Our final workshop of 2015 has just wrapped up, and it was a great week to finish the year on. Every single one of the “Make-Your-Own” wooden...
Commit your all to everything that you do. Commit to doing the best work that you can, so that you can stand by it. Commit to doing right by the planet that we live on, whatever it takes. Commit to seasonality and embrace the differences between each one . Commit to the task at hand, and stay until it’s done. Commit to surfing when the waves are good, not just when the weather’s good. Commit to a wave, and paddle...
Wastage is something that we avoid at all costs, and that is a sentiment shared by our friends over at Riz Boardshorts, who produce beautiful printed...
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...
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...
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