Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Well it's the last Friday of 2013, which means that it's our last blog post of the calendar year. As the year draws to an end it's not uncommon to look back over the past twelve months and to start making plans for the year ahead, so we though we'd take this opportunity to share with you some of our highlights from 2013. So here, in a roughly chronological order, are some of our favourite moments:
Perhaps you've left everything until the very last possible minute and are worried that you've missed your chance? Don't worry if you have and...
There’s just six days to go everyone! We’ve been holding off on the Christmas sales e-mails but please forgive us for jumping on the marketing...
The week before last we welcomed a film crew from BBC Countryfile into the workshop, who were in Cornwall producing a segment about wooden surf...
The one that a lot of you have been waiting for has finally arrived…introducing our 5’6” all cedar Seadar! Earlier this year we casually...
Come and join us in the workshop next weekend as we and our neighbours here at Krowji open up the doors to our workshops for the Christmas Open Studios event. If you've ever wondered how we make our surfboards and handplanes, are curious to check out the projects on our trestles at the moment, or are starting your Christmas shopping earlier than us then Open Studios is a great opportunity to come in and talk story with James as well as...
Last December we delivered a 9’4” Seasaw to Dr Dan Forman in Swansea, South Wales. Dan heads up the Coastal Otters Project at Swansea...
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...
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 and the nights begin to draw in, the option of waking up to surf as the sun rises and the day begins becomes a little more socially acceptable than those times in mid-summer when it starts to get light whilst there's still a four on the clock. 7am is a do-able time, however, as the time that the...
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...
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 seems that Autumn is fast become a bi-polar season for us at Otter Surfboards, divided between the empty beaches and groundswells of the South West and various events up in the capital. Next week we’ll be at 100% Design with the two projects that have been shortlisted for The Wood Awards being...
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....
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...
