Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Every now and then you see the sort of weather chart that makes you want to drop everything and run to the coast. This weekend, bookended by bank holidays, is just one of those: A low pressure has been sat in the mid-North Atlantic all week and was as low as 950mb at one stage, pushing a good period groundswell towards the shores of Western Europe. There's also been a high over the North Sea which has been drawing in a steady easterly wind...
It's officially Spring, and that means that for many of us the prospect of being fully immersed in the sea rather than floating above it on a...
Abrasive paper has been around for a long, long, time. Back in the thirteenth century the Chinese, in amongst inventing all sorts of other clever...
Pilot cutters are the vessels that worked the coastline between the Isles of Scilly and Bristol during the latter part of the 19th Century. Their...
It's always great to get feedback from clients about the boards that we've shaped them, and particularly so when the feedback is accompanied by...
This week we're going to tell you about how we use walnut in our surfboards. You may have noticed how we use hardwood accent strips on the deck and bottom panels of our surfboards, partly to add strength to a board and also to break up the grain pattern of the western red cedar which is the dominant material used in our boards.
This past week has been a busy one in the workshop here at Otter surfboards, and it's been absolutely brilliant. We've been running another one of...
British like cricket: that was the over-arching theme when we set out to design and build a more performance orientated mal to sit at the...
Let us introduce you to the humble surform. Many of you may already be familiar with them, but we're going to take a closer look at this...
Stand tall and proud. Go out on a limb. Remember your roots. Drink plenty of water. Be content with your natural beauty. Enjoy the...
Next Monday, the 21st of January, is Blue Monday. The third Monday in January is deemed by many (although it's pseudo-science) to be "the most depressing day of the year", even though this has no basis in scientific fact and was actually devised as a publicity campaign for a travel company. Regardless of it's accuracy or origins though, there's no doubting that the end of January isn't the chirpiest time for many; Christmas and New Year,...
We're going to start our "Surfboard Focus" series of blogs this week (we'll be looking at one board every month or so), and because it's a Friday,...
Happy New Year! So the festive period is truly winding down now and things are getting back to normal, and that means that this weekend is the...
POST UPDATE: As of 2015 we have been using a Spanish grown and produced plywood made from FSC certified poplar. It is lightweight and traceable, so...
As Christmas Day is drawing near, Now it's too late for us to ship gifts we fear, So we're taking a break for a couple of days, And hope...
There aren’t a lot of windows left in the workshop advent calendar, which means that Christmas Day is drawing ever closer. It’s feeling a lot more Christmassy too with this recent snap of cold weather! When you order from us the delivery guy still wears red, but it's not Santa. We use the services of Royal Mail now and all year round because we respect how tough our posties are by wearing shorts even in winter. Our final postal...
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and that means that lots of people will be out this weekend shopping for a tree to hang their...
We'd like to introduce Buddy as the newest member of the team here at Otter Surfboards.
Time to get your diaries out folks. Next weekend, from the evening of Friday November 30th through to late afternoon on Sunday December 2nd,...
