Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Surf wax is as necessary when surfing as the surfboard itself, but it’s also a small, consumable product that is often overlooked. Most surf waxes are made using petrochemicals however, and whilst we’ve tried a fair few “green” alternatives we’ve never been convinced enough by their recipes or performance to be confident offering them for sale. That was until we came across Others #woodstowaves surf wax project. Others is the...
June, July and August have been busy months so far here in the workshop, with “business as usual” colliding with the culmination of various...
Allow us to introduce Ally. Ally is one of James’ best friends, and the latest member of the team here at Otter Surfboards. For his 30th birthday,...
Easkey Britton, PhD, is a pioneering Irish surfer with a fascinating story: an academic and world travelling professional surfer, amongst other...
Surfing is often referred to as “The Sport of Kings” thanks to its ancient history as the preferred pastime of Hawaiian kings and queens, but it...
Last Friday we were lucky enough to host the UK premiere of The Plastic Project’s film Dispatches From a Plastic Planet at our annual Boards, BBQ and Beers open evening. This year the event once again sold-out, and for the first time in the four-year history of B>B>B we had a perfect summer’s evening with warm weather and clear skies under which to gather.
Last week, Joe and Mat joined us for our June wooden surfboard workshop week. They’re identical twin brothers, and back in January they had a big...
The summer solstice is fast approaching, and with it our annual “all are welcome” open-workshop evening of Boards, BBQ and Beers on the evening...
A couple of weeks ago we were lucky enough to be featured on Kate Humble's new series of Back to the Land, which has been shown on BBC Two over...
Yesterday, on Saturday the 19th of May, HRH Prince Harry married Ms Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle. Amongst the wedding gifts they received was a...
The Benefits of Making Most of us work with our hands every single day. But because the majority of developed economies are now based on knowledge work or services, the sort of work that people are doing with their hands is all too frequently limited to tapping a keyboard or swiping across a screen. It’s work, but we don’t think that it’s as rewarding. That’s not to say that manual labour is the fix-all answer, as repetitive manual...
It was our Chris' birthday last week but despite him having the day off, he came in to the workshop anyway. Why? Because the surf in the little bay...
Sometimes, and completely coincidentally, we have an “International Week” here at the workshop when all of the participants on a wooden surfboard...
All of the people who walk through the big blue workshop doors here are multifaceted; everybody has more than one interest, and the same goes for...
We’ve written before at the close of a workshop week about how, over the course of these five-days, the learning flows both ways. It’s rare that...
Riding a wave on a longboard is far from a passive activity; the size and weight of the surfboard means that the surfer must be dynamic and move their weight around in order to make the most of the wave. Whereas on a shortboard acceleration or stalling and turning can be achieved simply by moving your weight over your front or back foot accordingly, to do so on a longboard requires you to actually move your feet. The best way (by far) to shift...
Take a scroll through social media, and if you didn't know any better then you could perhaps be forgiven for coming to the conclusion that women's...
The Fine Art of Trim “Ponce DeLeon sailed the ocean in search of The Fountain of Youth, when all he had to do was jump over the side of his...
Everybody who joins us to make their own surfboard has an interesting story; Tim’s is one that none of us could quite get our heads around though.
