Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Every surf spot has its characters who are recognised for one reason or another. Our local break has one such individual who is highly regarded far beyond the beach and who deserves to be celebrated and thanked by surfers around the UK for the work he has done for us all. Chris Hines MBE (which he says stands for "moaning bloody environmentalist) was a founding member of Surfers Against Sewage, a special advisor to the Secretary of State for the...
Last week the workshop doors here were flanked on a daily basis by two pairs of boots drying in the sun, and an enormous (yet beautifully docile)...
Peering through the half-light of dawn, filtered through the mist and spray hanging in the air, you see a speck fall in to a wave and suddenly betray...
Our “Make Your Own Wooden Surfboard” workshop courses have become a core part of what we do here, and as with every thing somebody had to be the...
Naming something is a difficult business. And, you only get one shot. Sometimes, a name comes instantly as if it was always meant to be, whilst at other times the right name takes a little longer to reveal itself. Every model of surfboard that we design and make here at Otter Surfboards is given a name, and this is standard practice not just here but in almost any industry that produces something, be it surfboards, watches or cars. It took us...
When a person says that they intend to take a blowtorch to their freshly finished wooden surfboard before it goes off to be laminated, you could...
The 7’10” single fin pintail had been back from the laminators for a few weeks, taking up residence on the workshop wall whilst we waited for a...
It’s easy as a small business to always be looking forwards; to plan for the future and keep on pushing ahead. It’s all too common to overlook...
Neither Brian nor Ben are strangers to working with their hands to create something; Brian is a garage owner and mechanic from North Wales who...
We’ve never hung a Christmas wreath on the workshop doors here, but we thought that this year we ought to make an effort to get into the festive spirit a little more. Not being ones to buy things that we can make, and with the workshop running full steam ahead in preparation for our December workshop, we decided to use our offcuts to spread a little festive cheer. Fancy fashioning a similar decoration for your front door? Here’s how we...
Back in August three of our friends, David Smith and Jack Middleton from Surfers Against Sewage and Jack’s girlfriend Brogen Latham, travelled...
With Christmas fast approaching and because of the handmade to order nature of many of our products, we need to let you all know when our last...
No two workshops are ever the same, and the people that arrive here on a Monday morning and end up stood out in front of our big blue doors holding...
If you take a left out of the end of our road, follow it a mile or so to the end and turn right down the valley, you'll meet the Atlantic Ocean at...
We've just taken delivery of our 2017 calendars, and they're available to buy now over on our products page. We selected twelve of our favourite seasonal images featuring our twin passions of the ocean and wooden surfboards, so that what's on your wall will reflect what's outside your window whilst getting you excited for your next surf - whether that's going to involve paddling into a cold winter slab or sharing fun waves with friends in the...
Back in spring we visited Ireland and spent a couple of weeks surfing our way down the wild West Coast. One of the beaches that we stopped off to...
Long-range groundswells born of far off hurricanes and the first rumblings of winter mix with the last gasp sunshine of summer in autumn, and the...
There's no entrance fee for the sea; it's a free natural resource that so many people get immeasurable pleasure from. At worst you might have to pay...
