A STATE-of-the-art water-sports facility has opened in St Osyth on the site of the Mill Dam Lake after a £250,000 investment.

The Curve Wake Park development is now to a top quality water-sports facility catering for wakeboarding, paddle boarding, ringo rides and kayaking.

Owner of the park, 24-year-old Jake Moore, said that the planning process has been a long wait but it has been worth it.

He said: “We opened around seven weeks ago and we spent two weeks clearing the lake alone, it was so run down before; the grass was about a metre tall.

“You wouldn’t recognise it now and we turned it in to what it is now.

“We’ve done it up out of recycled shipping containers so we’re using recycled materials too.

“With all the holiday parks around it will bring more people to the area and this weekend alone we had 60 people a day to use the range of facilities.”

“We’ve turned this park into something really nice where people can come to relax and chill out.”

The overall planning period took around 12 weeks with the actual complex being built in a six-month period over the colder months and has transformed the water-front with 25-metres of decking to admire the views.

Mr Moore said park has attracted people from across the country regardless of their ability or interest in watersports.

There are only about 20 water sports facilities of this kind across the UK, making the new addition an exciting prospect for the area.

The owner added: “When I’ve been speaking to people in the area they say that it’s a good thing for the town and it’s something new. I think so anyway it’s all for people to do there as there isn’t’ a lot around here.

“It’s partly something to do around here, I love water sports. There’s no specific demographic here, that’s the great thing about it.”

The facility is open seven days a week in the summer months and offers everything dry land lessons or on-water wakeboarding. Lessons are taught in 15-minute slots.

To find out more go to curvewakepark.co.uk.