Journal
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
The latest news and stories from our workshop, and beyond.
A thirtieth, fiftieth and sixtieth birthday surfboard workshop for Tommy, Mike and Chris respectively; who all joined us in early October for our first full workshop since the pandemic hit. Here’s how the week played out…
The last couple of journal workshop entries have begun with a comment on how busy our summer has been, which we are all so grateful for here at Otter...
Summer has absolutely flown by for us here at Otter Surfboards, with three surfboard workshops in August keeping us busy, the old adage about time...
Summer in Cornwall is in full swing! August has been a busy month for us here at the Otter Surfboards workshop, it got off to a great start when Tim...
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...
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 to capture the good vibes from an awesome 5 days:
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...
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 celebrate the beauty of our cedar, with some wonderful grain patterns and almost completely knot-free planks for her deck and bottom skins. Jerome made a 7’4 Island Hopper that had our classic ‘double sandwich’ layup, with two strips of poplar sandwiched by three dark strips of teak in the...
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...
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 rain raged past the big blue doors and the wood burner was put through its paces to keep us all warm. As with most of our one-on-one workshop weeks, the conversations, and often the connections made, can get a little deeper than usual. That just seems to be what happens when we spend time...
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...
