Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
Last week was special for a number of reasons, not least that we had a father and son making a surfboard together in the workshop and there were waves at the bottom of the hill! Read on for our round up of the whole experience...
It’s not often Cornwall is blessed with both waves and sun during a workshop, but last week was definitely one for the books! Here’s our attempts...
Last week we were joined here in the Otter workshop by Chris and Phil who came to make their own sustainable wooden surfboards, Chris made a 6’4...
During the sunny and calm days of last week we welcomed Sam to the Otter workshop to make his own wooden surfboard. The lack of waves at the bottom...
For those of you that have bought one of our handplane kits, this How To guide will take you through each step of the making of your bodysurfing...
In the last week of October, we were joined in the workshop by Harry and Chris. Both had travelled from the other side of the UK, to join us, but Cornwall definitely holds a special place in both of their hearts. Harry kicked things off the way he wanted things to continue; rising with the sun from his van to jump in the sea before joining us in the workshop with dripping hair. Amazingly, given the time of year and the changing surf...
During the first week of October, Rachel and Jerome came to join us to make their own surfboards. Rachel made herself a 9’1 Wicket, that was set to...
The bank holiday at the end of August is often the day that kicks off our most popular workshop of the year. It’s normally the week that fills up...
We haven’t run a surfboard workshop for a few months, so when we knew Ben was going to join us for our first surfboard workshop since February,...
Back in February we welcomed Adrien into the workshop. It feels like such a long time since we flung open our workshop doors and welcomed anyone...
Right now, the restorative power of making and reconnecting with your own two hands, and of staying connected with each other, has never been more important. With our workshop courses temporarily suspended during the COVID-19 shutdown we are creating #stayathome make-your-own handplane kits that we can send out to you, so that you have a project to work on (individually or as a family) and something that you can look forward to using when we...
Bodhi joined us in deepest, darkest December last year to make a custom 6’2 hybrid shape over five days hunkering down in the workshop as wind and...
Luca is a close friend and, as we believe that friends are the family you choose, we consider him one of the family. We first met whilst in Sri...
Often, when we run our workshop weeks, we hear feedback from customers about how time flies past through the week and Friday seems to be here...
For the second of our August “Make Your Own Wooden Surfboard” workshops, we were joined by Matt and Henry. Matt runs a company that designs...
Last Saturday we welcomed back a large cast of our “workshopper” family for our 2019 Annual Gathering of Makers when we gather together for a surf and then an evening of food, drink, music, art and sharing stories back at the farm where it all began for us.
Our first August wooden surfboard workshop was a special one, not least because we had three 7’2” Coasters on the trestles here. We were...
Cornwall put on a great show in July with beautiful weather and some small swells to break the early summer flat spell. We were joined in the...
Jersey has an incredibly rich surfing heritage; these days the Channel Islands are often overlooked in the UK surf scene but when surfing first...
