Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Last Saturday we welcomed our first workshoppers into our new space. Emma, Barbara, and Chris spent the day with us producing their own bellyboards in anticipation of lovely summer days on the beach after such a wet, blustery, winter.
In between everything else that we've been doing this winter, we've been having fun with our handplanes. Everything that we do here is subject to...
We have an announcement to make. We've moved! Lock, stock and barrel, the entire contents of our workshop at Krowji has been packed up,...
With storm after storm battering the coast here, we thought now might be an appropriate time to offer a little bit of escapism.
Take a walk along the Pier with us. The Pier is currently the longest surfboard in our range' it's our take on a traditional mal at 9'6" x 22 7/8"...
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...
