Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
We're at that time of year now when the excitement of Christmas and New Year has faded and Spring and the coming of Summer still feels a fair way away. We want to do our bit to help if you've got a small case of mid-winter blues so we're going to be launching an exclusive offer to our newsletter followers next week. We'll be sharing the details in our February "Words From the Workshop" e-mail which goes out next Friday January 31st, so if...
"Why two fins?" we hear you ask? Well, that's a very good question, and one that we'll try to answer here. Surfboards can have as many or as few...
Once all of the component pieces of one of our hollow wooden surfboards have been prepared, the building and shaping process is done largely using...
New Years resolutions are funny old things. Many people labour over them in the days and weeks leading up to the moment when the clock and the...
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...
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 you're starting to panic about Christmas gifts, just let Otter Surfboards be your wooden surfboard version of Santa Claus, delivering until late on Christmas Eve; although we're no longer guaranteeing postal orders for Christmas, our "Build-Your-Own" workshop gift vouchers are a certificate that can be...
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...
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 University so as a surfer he was understandably drawn to Otter Surfboards when he was looking for a new longboard.
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...
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 about time that we gathered together all of the people who have helped to grow Otter Surfboards into what it is today to say "Thank You" for being a part of our community. And so last Saturday we returned to Otter Surfboards spiritual home on the farm above Porthtowan for our first ever "AGM" -...
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...
