Surfboard Workshop Retreat
Description
Since 2010 we’ve helped over two hundred people to make their own wooden surfboards, and our workshop retreats are far and away our favourite weeks every year. Take five days for yourself to come and make something extraordinary – a surfboard shaped by your own hands, built to last a lifetime and carry the story of your time in Cornwall.
Over five days, you’ll make the surfboard 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.
We run our workshops year round and have limited spaces, so if you’re keen to join us booking below will secure your dates and your initial board design session with James.
Any questions at all, email us and we’ll be in touch.
Customise Your Experience
£3,650.00
Itinerary
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.
Where to Stay
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.
Workshop Videos
Every surfboard workshop is filmed and edited to capture memories from the week, so our workshoppers can enjoy and share their once-in-a-lifetime experience with friends and family.
For the latest videos, head over to our YouTube playlist.
Before Your Workshop
Before your workshop, we will prepare all the elements ready to begin constructing your surfboard. 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 surfboard from poplar plywood.
It works out to abut three days work per surfboard 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.
After Your Workshop
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 surfboard that is ready for finishing.
The week after your workshop, we take it a short distance up the road to the best surfboard laminator in the UK, who finishes your surfboard ready to be splashed in the sea.
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 surfboard back in the workshop, we can either work out delivery for your board or you can come and collect it and join us for a surf.
