Ondra
Ondra
An oil painting of a rocky headland at sunrise, a small white shed with a red door and three wind-bent pines on its top, long lines of swell wrapping around the point, and one surfer riding the nearest wave

Ondra

Surfboards shaped by hand in a shed above the point.

7:36 am at Ferro Point

Three boards a week, shaped, glassed and sanded by two people, in a shed that faces the swell.

A cream surfboard with one coral band, planted upright in a mound of painted sand, its long blue shadow running to the right

Boards

A longboard for the small days, a fish for the fun ones, and a step-up for the mornings when Ferro wakes up.

See the three boards

Every board begins as a block of foam in this shed.

A low whitewashed shed with a tin roof and a coral-red door, two surfboards leaning beside it in the dune grass
A steep cliff of pines and gorse with a thin path zigzagging down to a turquoise cove, two small figures carrying surfboards on the way down

Shaping bay

Inês Calado shapes every board. Tomás Reiner glasses and sands it.

The door is open on Saturdays, 9 am to 1 pm, unless the swell is too good to miss.

Visit the shaping bay