Paddleboard Workshop Retreat

Description

We love our surfboard making retreats so much, we wanted to find a way to offer them to those for whom paddleboarding is their main passion. Whilst we custom make our exploration paddleboards to order due to their size and complexity, you can get hands-on and make yourself one of our cruiser paddleboard models on a five-day retreat.

Over the week, you’ll build the paddleboard of your choosing alongside a maximum of two other people, with us guiding you through each step of the process. No previous experience or aptitude for making is necessary; we break everything down into bite-size chunks and support you at all times.

Take five days for yourself to come and make something extraordinary – a paddleboard shaped by your own hands, built to last a lifetime and carry the story of your time with us in Cornwall.

We run our workshops year round but have limited spaces, so if you’re keen to join us, you can email us to join the waiting list, or book below and we’ll arrange a call to talk through our available dates and what you’d like to make with us.

Any questions at all, email us and we’ll be in touch.

If you're ready to book

£5,500.00

Choose if you’d like 6 nights of on-site accommodation, your lunches and transfers to Newquay airport or Redruth train station included, or if you only need the workshop.

or Commission Your Paddleboard

Day One – Cut out the frame and glue to the bottom skin.

Day Two – Build up the rail strips as far as we can.

Day Three – Big Wednesday. Finishing the rails, fitting nose, tail and fin blocks, prepping the board for the deck and getting the deck skin glued down.

Day Four – Lose yourself with the shaping tools and rough out your surfboard’s shape.

Day Five – Finishing the shaping, sanding and signing off your surfboard. High fives and hugs all round.

 

If you want us to take care of  your accommodation, transfers and lunches each day, simply select that option above.

Or if you’re happy to organise that yourself, here are a few ideas for local campsites, B&Bs and self catered accommodation.

If you struggle to find anywhere, you can always drop us an email and we’ll help if we can.

 

Before your workshop, we will prepare all the elements ready to begin constructing your paddleboard. We take the raw material (rough sawn wood from the sawmill) and process it into the deck and bottom skin, the rails strips and nose and tail blocks and we laser cut the internal frame of your paddleboard from poplar plywood.

It works out to abut three days work per paddleboard for us to be completely ready for you.

We’ll have this all laid out on your own workbench on the monday morning and we’ll talk you through how we piece them together before getting started.

 

Over the five days you’re with us, we’ll do all of the woodwork making of your board, so we’ll end up with a completely shaped wooden paddleboard that is ready for finishing.

The week after your workshop, we take it a short distance up the road to the best paddleboard laminator in the UK, who finishes your board ready to be splashed in the sea, river or lake.

Once we’ve spoken with him, we’ll be able to give you an estimate for when your board will be ready, but this is typically about 8 weeks after your course.

Once we have your paddleboard back in the workshop, we can either work out delivery for your board or you can come and collect it.

 

If we haven’t quite managed to answer your question, it might be on our FAQ page, or pop it in an email and we’ll get back to you.