Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
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...
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 appeared in the form of some new workshops that we'll be running here. We will now be running one-day workshops for handplanes (£110) and bellyboards (£140) on select Saturdays throughout the year, so you'll be able to come in and spend a day with us producing a lovely wooden sled to enhance...
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...
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 1981, and over the years this event has morphed from the UK’s flagship surf contest, with a line-up of international competitors vying for WQS points, into a large music festival on the cliffs overlooking Watergate Bay, with a small surf competition on the side held at Fistral Beach. Whilst...
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...
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 pressure parked over us, with clear, windless, blue skies and small waves, one of the surfboards on the demo rack here at the Otter workshop that barely has a chance to drip-dry between surfs is the Pieces of Eight. Another one of our great all-rounders, at 8'0" x 21 3/4" x 2 3/4" the Pieces of...
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...
This afternoon Glenn Bowker carefully lined up an inked rubber stamp, paused to take a breath, and then pressed it firmly down onto the deck of the...
"A man who makes things with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman. But a man who works with his...
