Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The 2014 World Bellyboarding Championships are fast approaching us, and we're busy practising and preparing for one of our favourite "surf contests" in the calendar. This year's event will run on Sunday September 7th, and registration for entrants has recently opened - spaces usually fill up pretty quickly so if you want to take part then don't delay! We love the champs not only because everybody is competing on wooden surfcraft or because...
Luca arrived in Cornwall a few days early for his "Build-Your-Own" workshop week with us, and it turned out to be a stroke of very good timing on...
The schools have broken up and the summer holidays are here, and with them some sunshine and lovely small waves. The sea's a bit busier, but so...
Wooden surfboards, due to the way in which they are designed, built and shaped, differ from their foam cousins in that the shape of the surfboard is...
Everybody, meet Chris. Chris is the latest addition to our small team here at Otter Surfboards and we're using his arrival as a good excuse to...
This past weekend saw The Ten Board Challenge return to Godrevy for it's third year, and we were delighted to be involved with such a great event again. The Ten Board Challenge is an alternative format women's surf contest supported by The National Trust in which competitors draw the surfboard that they will contest each heat on out of a hat, meaning that a die-hard shortboarder might end up having to compete on a 9'6" traditional single fin...
Wooden surfboards are at the root of many countries traditional wave riding cultures, and this is certainly the case for Papua New Guinea. Here,...
Last week, thanks to a high pressure that sat right over the top of us bathing Cornwall in sunshine, we were able to slide the big, blue, doors wide...
The festival of finless-fun is back! Our friends over at Approaching Lines are putting on another grip-less gathering on the longest day of the...
On our May workshop we had the pleasure of spending a week building wooden surfboards with Kim and Shelby. A truly international couple, they are...
The sun didn’t set for 72 hours: Last weekend James went away with five of his oldest friends (to celebrate one of the group’s impending marriage) to the Svalbard Archipelago – a group of islands far inside the Arctic Circle. One of the group, Steve, is an Arctic guide and Svalbard is his home base, so it was agreed that four of them would travel out to visit him and they would spend a few days under the midnight sun on a...
"When the sun shines, make hay. Which is to say: take time when time comes, lest time steals away" The Otter Surfboards workshop has been good...
Back in March we were joined by Lloyd on one of our "Build-Your-Own" workshop weeks. Lloyd is a joiner by trade and so had a bit of a head start...
We've just re-stocked our online store with our classic white t-shirt, in the hope that it can tempt the sun to come out and stay out for the rest...
A good set of chisels is fairly essential in any woodworker's tool cabinet, and because of the variety of tasks that they can be turned to it's often...
This week all three sets of trestles in the workshop have grown a surfboard, as Patrick, Pete and Claudio joined us to build their own. All in their twenties (although Pete clicked over into his thirties on Tuesday and didn’t hear the end of it), the boards that they chose to build reflect wonderfully the diversity of modern day surfing – Patrick built a 9’4” Seasaw, Pete a 6’4” Woodburner and Claudio a 5’10”...
As the sun starts to rise earlier and earlier each morning and the evenings slowly draw out, we’re presented with more opportunities to go...
Packing up the van and taking our workshop on the road is one of our great pleasures. Last Saturday the road wasn't a very long one though, as we...
Do you fancy really immersing yourself in the Otter Surfboards experience? We're really happy to announce that we're now able to offer camping in...
