Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Last weekend we temporarily relocated our workshop. For one day, on Saturday, we did what we normally do and covered the floor with sawdust whilst guiding a lovely group of people through the stages of creating their own bodysufing handplane, but in the Patagonia Store in Covent Garden, London, rather than at our workshop in Cornwall. Ben and his team had very kindly cleared a space for us amongst their winter surf range and "heritage...
Well we’re back on our favourite side of the Tamar now, home in Cornwall after another great weekend up in the big smoke. Apologies if you were...
We're heading back up to London, but this time we're loading our tool kit and a stack of timber into the back of the van ready to put on a...
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...
It has been a little over a year now since we relaunched our website with a new logo and a new look for Otter Surfboards, and we thought that it was...
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 cover photograph of a beautiful backlit wave will have noticed a piece about us on pages 16-19. Alex Wade, who also wrote about us for Coast Magazine earlier this year, was the caretaker of our 9'5" Seasaw demo model for the summer period and has been enjoying his local spots around Sennen and...
Kingsley's just finished off his "Desert" Island Hopper after a week of hard work, fuelled by lots of cups of tea. He's really pleased with his...
It’s been a good summer this year. Memories of past years of howling nor’westerly winds and incessant mizzle were banished and we spent the...
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...
Bellyboards are right up there with buckets and spades, windbreaks and the sound of an ice cream van as a pillar of the classic British Summer. Next Sunday, September 8th, the National Trust will be hosting the eleventh annual World Bellyboarding Championships just down the road from us at Chapel Porth. We've been involved with the Championships in one form or another for the past three years, exhibiting...
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 very nearly spent the week sleeping on a boat off the south coast, but unfortunately it was sold just a few weeks ago" Tim replied when asked...
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 followers) exactly what we do with the waste that we produce as a by-product of building hollow wooden surfboards. As we mentioned in Part 1, there is no getting away from the production of waste in any industry; in our small industry wood goes from a round shape (the tree) to rectangular...
The awning was already here when we moved in to the workshop here at Krowji; a few lengths of 2"x4" with some clear plastic tarpaulin pinned to it...
The name paipo (pronounced pipe-oh) is derived from the Hawaiian "Pae Po'o" which means to surf headfirst. Essentially these surfboards are...
The making of anything is likely to result in some wastage of materials, and wooden surfboards are no exception. But how much you waste and what...
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