Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
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 one-day "Build-Your-Own" handplane workshop at the Patagonia store in Covent Garden. On Saturday November 2nd we'll be at the Patagonia store on Langley Street (just off Long Acre) with some work stations set up and an open tool bag, ready to lead you through the process of crafting your own wooden...
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...
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 majority of the summer enjoying pleasant weather and small, summery waves. Now, perhaps the apparent early onset of Autumn has caused us to cast our memories back and view the summer through rose tinted spectacles, and we’re tactfully forgetting about the crowds, lifeguard loud-hailers and...
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....
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 where he would be staying this week whilst building a 9'4" Seasaw with us. As it is, he is camping with his family above Gwithian Beach and cycling the coast road along to our workshops at Krowji in the grounds of the old Redruth Grammar School each day, leaving his wife and five year old twins to...
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...
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 simply thin wooden bellyboards surfed prone in exactly the same manner they were when Captain James Cook dropped anchor in a Hawaiian bay in 1778, when he described the locals riding waves prone on boards that were between 3' and 6' in length. These boards were popular in Hawaii and elsewhere were...
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...
This past month it has finally felt as though Summer has arrived here in the south west of the UK - on some days at least! And when we get a high...
This weekend just gone saw the 2nd edition of the Girls 10 Board challenge go down at Godrevy, hosted by the National Trust. The idea of the...
