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Poland’s Thriving Yacht Building Industry: Yacht Style Special, Part 1

In the first of a two-part feature on Poland’s booming boat building industry, Yacht Style focuses on luxury yacht brands Sunreef, Galeon and Conrad.

Sunreef Yachts has been helping raise the international profile of Polish yacht building since Frenchman Francis Lapp founded the luxury catamaran builder in 2002 in the historic Gdansk Shipyard, on the country’s north coast. And Poland’s profile as a major player in the yachting world recently took another leap after Rafa Nadal was announced as a future owner of the new 80 Sunreef Power.

Rafa Nadal, with Francis Lapp, will receive his 80 Sunreef Power catamaran in 2020

Nadal – one of tennis’s all-time greats, with 18 Grand Slam titles – viewed the model’s world premiere at this year’s Cannes Yachting Festival, although his customised version, hull number four, is due for delivery in 2020.

“As someone from an island, the sea is part of our lives and it’s not a secret that I love the sea,” said the Spaniard, who has previously visited and chartered Sunreef catamarans. 
“When I’m at home in Mallorca, I try to go out and find that time where I can just enjoy my time on a boat. I am very happy to be on board with the Sunreef Yachts family and would like to thank Francis Lapp for making this possible.”

Lapp’s company has been on a roll in the past year and has already sold over a dozen units of its 80 sailing catamaran, which only made its debut at Cannes last year. From producing about 10-14 units a year, Sunreef completed 17 in 2018 and this year expects to produce about 24, a company record.

“It has been a spectacular year for us,” says Karolina Paszkiewicz, PR and Marketing Director of Sunreef. The company now has over 720 employees, with about 500 from Poland and over 200 from Ukraine, a remarkable head count for a company that customises the layout and interior of every yacht.

Sunreef has sold over a dozen units of its 80 sailing catamaran

Yet Sunreef’s super-luxurious catamarans are a stark contrast to the historic but decaying brick-walled sheds in which they’ve been built for the past 17 years. The company is now in a transition to a nearby four-hectare (40,000sqm) facility, with the move from Gdansk Shipyard set to be complete by 2020.

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The enormous shipyard is situated on the side of the Martwa Wisla river and on Ostrow Island, and established Gdansk as one of northern Europe’s leading shipbuilding cities.

It was also the site of iconic protests in 1980 led by former shipyard electrician Lech Walesa that led to the foundation of the Solidarity movement and eventually the end of communist rule. In the mid-2000s, Jean-Michel Jarre and then Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour played big concerts here in tribute to the movement.

Gdansk Shipyard was founded as a state-owned company in 1945 on the sites of former German shipyards considerably damaged in the Second World War, while other large-scale shipyards emerged in neighbouring Gdynia, as well as Szczecin to the west.

Sunreef, founded in Gdansk in 2002, displays its catamarans in the Old Town for the Pomorskie Rendez-Vous

Poland also developed as a boatbuilding nation after the Soviet leadership chose it to produce yachts, among other products, for all countries from the Eastern Bloc. Even today, many yachts cruising the waters of the former Soviet states – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia – are labelled as ‘Made in Poland’.

In the 1980s, yachts built in Poland started to be exported, primarily to northern and western Europe, and North America. However, with the political changes following the end of communism, many of the biggest yacht-building companies went bankrupt and new privately owned companies emerged.

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Poland became home to production facilities for many foreign brands, including several from yachting’s two biggest conglomerates – France’s Beneteau Group and USA’s Brunswick Group.

In 1992, Jeanneau was among the first foreign companies to 
build boats in Poland. Today the Beneteau Group has a 16-hectare (160,000sqm) facility in Ostroda, an hour’s drive southeast of Gdansk, that employs about 900 people and builds Beneteau and Jeanneau boats, including the Merry Fisher 895 Marlin that features in this issue’s Islands & Coasts .

Sailing boats by prolific Polish builder Delphia Yachts, which was acquired by the Beneteau Group late last year and is now focusing on motor boats

Last year, Beneteau Group added a second facility in Poland – and another brand – when it bought Delphia Yachts, one of the country’s biggest yacht builders and now focused on motor boats at its facility in Olecko in the northeast of this country of 38 million people.

Brunswick brands like Sea Ray, Bayliner and Quicksilver are also built in Poland, while other foreign companies that have boats built in the country include Hanse from western neighbour Germany, Denmark’s X-Yachts, Finland’s Axopar, and Norway’s Windy and Askeladden.

The vast majority of yachts built in Poland, including by
local brands, are exported and overall production has ramped up dramatically in recent years. According to Polboat (Polish Chamber of Marine Industry and Water Sports), the value of the country’s exported boats doubled from 2013 to 2017, rising from €241m to €484m.

Polboat also announced that the country’s annual production recently returned to its pre-2008 financial crisis high and has since bettered it, with 23,000 boats in a year and turnover increasing by 15 per cent. About 95 per cent of the boats are exported, primarily to Norway, France, USA, Netherlands and Germany.

Polboat President Sebastian Nietupski says Poland has benefited from European grants

Furthermore, Polboat states that Poland is Europe’s leading producer of motorboats with outboard engines from 6-11m (20-36ft), while globally it’s second only to the USA.

“Poland produces a lot of boats for local brands and also a huge number for foreign brands. This shows we’ve built trust and that this is one of the best countries to produce boats and invest in,” says Sebastian Nietupski, President of Polboat.

“This is now one of the best times ever in Poland as we have benefited from European grants for new projects and investments, so many of our boatyards have brand-new machinery and the latest technology. This is a really strong asset.

“But we don’t just want to produce or follow. We want to be leaders, to be the best. We want Poland to be known for the best fuel-economy solutions or the most innovative designs. In fact, because of brands like Galeon, foreign shipyards are now copying our design ideas.”

GALEON MOTORS AHEAD

There’s a healthy representation of local brands among the massive number of Polish-built boats exported around the world, with Galeon leading the local charge and still growing fast, globally and particularly in the US.

A Galeon 650 Fly takes pride of place in this year’s Wind and Water show in Gdynia

Established in 1982 in the communist era, Galeon now has 1,400 staff working on 30-49ft models in its inland site in Straszyn and 50-78ft yachts at its bigger site, with marina, along the Martwa Wisla river.

From building about 80 boats in 2016, its units increased to 120 the following year and 150 in 2018, even though the company is slowing down production of its 30-40ft models.

Across the world, Galeon has become renowned for innovations like the rotating cockpit sofa and ‘Beach Mode’ drop-down sides, features first incorporated on the Tony Castro-designed 500 Fly unveiled at Cannes in 2015. Such features have since been rolled out on other models including the 460 and 640.

The brand’s huge growth in the US has followed its sales partnership from 2016 with MarineMax, the world’s largest yacht retailer, while other dealers around the world include Hong Kong-headquartered Asiamarine and Alexander Marine Australia.

“Our innovations have brought us a lot of success around the world in the past few years, although we’ve only been really active in the US in the last three,” said Grzegorz ‘Greg’ Tuszynski, Galeon’s Managing Director.

Galeon’s riverside facility has a marina and is the larger of its two production sites

“Last year we were already fourth in sales among 40-70ft motor yachts in the US, making us the top European or non-American brand. We expect this ranking to increase in 2019 and are hopeful of eventually becoming No. 1, while also growing in Europe, Asia and Australia.”

CONRAD BRINGS SUPERYACHT ACCLAIM

Poland enjoyed further acclaim in May when the Conrad 133’ Viatoris , built in Gdansk, was honoured at the World Superyacht Awards in London, winning Best Displacement Motor Yacht 300- 499GT – 30-47.9m.

Conrad Shipyard has generally been a custom-boat builder and has in the region of just 80 full-time staff, but can also draw on the resources of its parent company, Marine Projects, which has about 400 people working in its waterfront site on the Martwa Wisla.

With a name inspired by Heart of Darkness author Joseph Conrad (born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), Conrad was established in 2003 and has worked on a wide variety of motor yachts, classic tugboats and large sailing yachts, including tall ships such as the 67m Le Quy Don for the Vietnamese navy.

However, when the 40m Viatori s, designed by Reymond Langton for a Russian owner, was shown at both Cannes and the Monaco Yacht Show last year, it enabled Conrad’s build quality to be compared with the most renowned superyacht builders.

Conrad’s 133ft Viatoris, pictured in the heart of Gdansk’s Old Town, was a winner at the 2019 World Superyacht Awards, another success for Polish yacht building

“Presenting Viatoris at Cannes and Monaco put us in a completely new market. Viatoris showed we can be compared with superyachts from the Netherlands, for example, and for a good price,” says Michael Michalczewski, Conrad’s Marketing and Sales Director.

“Also, as it was more of a commercially viable project, we can now go down the route of offering semi-custom builds, using the Conrad 133’s naval architecture.”

Because of its rich shipbuilding history, Poland is well known for its body work, and local shipyards often construct the hulls or superstructures for globally renowned superyacht builders, particularly from Germany and the Netherlands.

Dutch conglomerate Damen Group, the parent company of renowned superyacht builder Amels, has a marine-components facility in Gdansk and its own shipyards in Gdynia and also Kozle in the south, west of Krakow. In recent years, Damen Shipyards Gdynia built the 140-tonne aluminium superstructure for the 83m Here Comes The Sun , Amels’ largest yacht to date.

Note: The second part of the article will appear on Luxuo on October 17

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Looks like Poland will soon have a new king (or król ) of the high seas.

Conrad Yachts has just announced that its highly anticipated superyacht Ace is set to launch in just two months’ time. The 145-footer will become the largest yacht ever built in Poland and take the crown as the country’s flagship. That title previously belonged to Conrad’s 133-foot superyacht Viatoris .

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Commissioned by a Swiss owner, Ace is the first unit from the yard’s C144S line. A product of fruitful collaboration, the yacht was brought to life by an all-star cast of designers and naval architects hailing from all corners of the globe. Her sleek exterior is the handiwork of British studio Reymond Langton Design, while her naval architecture was executed by Dutch outfit Diana Yacht Design. Milanese firm M2 Atelier penned the interiors and Conrad’s in-house team is handling construction, of course. Ace’s 133-foot predecessor was also penned by Reymond Langton, which is considered one of the hottest studios in superyacht design.

Ace spans 145 feet from tip to tail.  Conrad Yachts

The impending king sports a straight bow–that explains the “S” in the model name–along with a steel hull and aluminum superstructure. Onboard, there is one owner’s suite, four VIP cabins, four crew cabins and a captain’s cabin. That means she can sleep up to 10 guests and nine crew.

The superyacht will have a top speed of 13 knots.  Conrad Yachts

As for grunt, Ace will be equipped with twin CAT engines that give her an estimated top speed of 13 knots. When cruising at a more leisurely 10 knots, the yacht will be able to cover around 4,000 nautical miles.

Ace is set to launch in October.  Conrad Yachts

Conrad began working on Ace at the Gdansk yard in the summer of 2020 and is expected to launch the vessel in early October. There is also a second hull from the C144S series under construction and a third hull listed for sale with Denison. Perhaps this particular król might just have to share the crown.

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GDANSK – The contrast is as stark as it is improbable: a dazzling, brand-new super yacht glides across the harbour of the communist-era Gdansk Shipyard, the birthplace of new Poland but the epitome of industrial decay.

Sleek, sophisticated, luxurious and competitively priced Polish yachts are reinventing the country’s all-but-defunct ship-building industry with a sporty capitalist edge.

“I think it’s the best-kept secret of the boating industry in Europe — that is: Polish production and Polish quality,” said Philip Scott, a British expat and deputy chairman of the Polish Chamber of Marine Industry and Water Sports (POLBOAT).

One leading firm, Sunreef Yachts, boasts it’s the world “leader in the class of custom-built, luxury catamarans,” according to public relations officer Rafal Lenartowski.

He said clients are “proud” to own vessels made in the hallowed shipyard where the pro-democracy Solidarity trade union rose up under Lech Walesa in 1980 and nine years later helped bring down Warsaw’s old Soviet-satellite regime.

Sunreef’s head offices are in no-nonsense portable containers on a leased plot in the shadow of rusty, gargantuan cranes. In a rambling red-brick production hall nearby, 250 local craftsmen hone its double-hulled vessels to perfection.

Started in 2000 by Francis and Nicolas Lapp, an expat French father-and-son team with a background in electrical engineering, Sunreef tapped into generations of ship-building savvy in the Gdansk workforce to turn out products for choosy clients from Monaco to Qatar, Hong Kong and even Santiago, Chile.

Their vessels measure 58 to 114 feet (17 to 35 metres) with “competitive” prices from 850,000 to 10.5 million euros ($1.22-14.5 million). The catalogue also offers a “world-first” 200-foot model valued at 30 million euros.

The key to success, says Lenartowski, is quality at the “same or higher level than other yards in Europe” but prices that are “still a little bit lower”, 15 percent on average.

“Clients are comparing us to the best-known Italian brand in terms of craftsmanship,” he said.

Industry insider Super yacht Business magazine recently carried an eight-page spread hailing the competitiveness of Sunreef and three other home-spun Polish super yacht-makers, Galeon, Conrad and YBM.

The four firms are the stars among Poland’s 100 yacht yards that, all told, build around 20,000 boats per year costing an average 9,000 euros — mostly small and mid-sized motor and sailing yachts from six to 10 metres, according to POLBOAT.

‘We put more soul into our yachts’

“Poland today is one of the leading players in boat production in Europe up to 10 metres,” said POLBOAT’s Scott. “The share on the European market is significant,” he said, with French and Italian yacht-makers the main rivals.

In boat shows across Europe, about a third of all vessels are now Polish-made, Scott added. But they are sold under global brands like France’s renowned Jeanneau-Beneteau and US giant Brunswick Marine which “account for around half of Poland’s production.”

Virtually all Polish-made boats are exported, as two decades after communism’s demise most Poles still can’t afford such luxuries.

POLBOAT chairman Andrej Janowski, the first to open a commercial shipyard to build luxury yachts after the fall of communism, attributes the drive to make more sophisticated and speedy boats to what he calls the freedom-loving Polish soul.

“Sailing is something which is characteristic of people with a mentality of freedom and we Poles have always been a free people,” he insisted.

Indeed, domestic yacht-building exploded when communism collapsed in 1989 and the essential marine-grade resins, fibreglass, plywood and lacquers suddenly became available on the nascent free market.

Over the last 22 years, two other pioneers in the Polish market, Wojciech Kot and brother Piotr, have built their passion for sailing into a a multi-million dollar business with 450 employees, including 150 certified sailors.

Their firm, Delphia, is located in the town of Olecko, nestled among forests in the picturesque northeastern Mazury lake district. It now has an annual production of 2,000 motor yachts for Brunswick Marine and 200 custom-made sailing yachts sold under its own flag for up to 298,000 euros.

Kot invokes the same high quality-low cost mantra cited by others. “We have world-class design coupled with Polish craftsmanship, with the big plus that the labour costs still aren’t as high as elsewhere so we can put more time into customising to fit the client’s needs,” he said.

Kot himself spends about three months a year on the water as a captain test-sailing his Delphias, most recently across the Atlantic.

In Poland, “we put more soul into our yachts — that’s how I see it,” he said.

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“I think it’s the best-kept secret of the boating industry in Europe — that is: Polish production and Polish quality,” said Philip Scott, a British expat and deputy chairman of the Polish Chamber of Marine Industry and Water Sports (POLBOAT).

One leading firm, Sunreef Yachts, boasts it’s the world “leader in the class of custom-built, luxury catamarans,” according to public relations officer Rafal Lenartowski.

He said clients are “proud” to own vessels made in the hallowed shipyard where the pro-democracy Solidarity trade union rose up under Lech Walesa in 1980 and nine years later helped bring down Warsaw’s old Soviet-satellite regime.

Sunreef’s head offices are in no-nonsense portable containers on a leased plot in the shadow of rusty, gargantuan cranes. In a rambling red-brick production hall nearby, 250 local craftsmen hone its double-hulled vessels to perfection.

Started in 2000 by Francis and Nicolas Lapp, an expat French father-and-son team with a background in electrical engineering, Sunreef tapped into generations of ship-building savvy in the Gdansk workforce to turn out products for choosy clients from Monaco to Qatar, Hong Kong and even Santiago, Chile.

Their vessels measure 58 to 114 feet (17 to 35 meters) with “competitive” prices from 850,000 to 10.5 million euros ($1.22-14.5 million). The cataloge also offers a “world-first” 200-foot model valued at 30 million euros.

The key to success, says Lenartowski, is quality at the “same or higher level than other yards in Europe” but prices that are “still a little bit lower”, 15 percent on average.

“Clients are comparing us to the best-known Italian brand in terms of craftsmanship,” he said.

Industry insider Superyacht Business magazine recently carried an eight-page spread hailing the competitiveness of Sunreef and three other home-spun Polish superyacht-makers, Galeon, Conrad and YBM.

The four firms are the stars among Poland’s 100 yacht yards that, all told, build around 20,000 boats per year costing an average 9,000 euros — mostly small and mid-sized motor and sailing yachts from six to 10 metres, according to POLBOAT.

“Poland today is one of the leading players in boat production in Europe up to 10 meters,” said POLBOAT’s Scott. “The share on the European market is significant,” he said, with French and Italian yacht-makers the main rivals.

In boat shows across Europe, about a third of all vessels are now Polish-made, Scott added. But they are sold under global brands like France’s renowned Jeanneau-Beneteau and US giant Brunswick Marine which “account for around half of Poland’s production.”

Virtually all Polish-made boats are exported, as two decades after communism’s demise most Poles still can’t afford such luxuries.

POLBOAT chairman Andrej Janowski, the first to open a commercial shipyard to build luxury yachts after the fall of communism, attributes the drive to make more sophisticated and speedy boats to what he calls the freedom-loving Polish soul.

“Sailing is something which is characteristic of people with a mentality of freedom and we Poles have always been a free people,” he insisted.

Indeed, domestic yacht-building exploded when communism collapsed in 1989 and the essential marine-grade resins, fiberglass, plywoods and lacquers suddenly became available on the nascent free market.

Over the last 22 years, two other pioneers in the Polish market, Wojciech Kot and brother Piotr, have built their passion for sailing into a a multi-million dollar business with 450 employees, including 150 certified sailors.

Their firm, Delphia, is located in the town of Olecko, nestled among forests in the picturesque northeastern Mazury lake district. It now has an annual production of 2,000 motor yachts for Brunswick Marine and 200 custom-made sailing yachts sold under its own flag for up to 298,000 euros.

Kot invokes the same high quality-low cost mantra cited by others. “We have world-class design coupled with Polish craftsmanship, with the big plus that the labor costs still aren’t as high as elsewhere so we can put more time into customizing to fit the client’s needs,” he said.

Kot himself spends about three months a year on the water as a captain test-sailing his Delphias, most recently across the Atlantic.

In Poland, “we put more soul into our yachts — that’s how I see it,” he said.

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• Nationality: Poland
• Year built: 1971
• Rig: Bm Ketch
• Height: 20.50 m
• Length of hull: 23.00 m
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• Number of trainees: 6
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S/Y POLONEZ is one of the most famous Polish sailing yachts. It was built in 1971 for Kpt. Krzysztof Baranowski who entered the boat into the OSTAR ’72 regatta, from Plymouth in Great Britain to Newport, USA. Three weeks after finishing the race Kpt. Baranowski on board the Polonez began one of the most spectacular achievements in Polish sailing history. He single-handedly sailed around the world passing all five continents. He was the second Pole to do so, and the first one who travelled the harder route through southern storms and high seas in the sub-Antarctic region. On February 23rd 1973 he passed the famous Cape Horn as the first Polish sailor to go around it single-handedly. He finished the trip in seven months and returned to Poland in June of 1973. Later he turned the boat over to young Polish sailors to serve as a training vessel.

The boat was used by students of The Maritime Collage in Szczecin (Wyzsza Szkola Morska w Szczecinie, 1973-87) before it was sold to a Polish businessman Lech Grobelny.Unfortunately the new owner had to serve a long prison sentence for his financial frauds so the boat was detained and forgotten for a long time.

Thanks to a noted Szczecinian sailor – Mr. Bruno Salcewicz and a Polish developer company – Włodarzewska S.A. the boat was repaired and refitted in 2005-2008. Later it briefly sailed with student crews from the Pomeranian Maritime Education Programme but was never again used by college students for whom the boat was donated by its first captain – Krzysztof Baranowski.

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A series of three new electric monohull commuter ferries have already begun operational sailings on the Moskva River in the Russian capital Moscow.

Built by Russian shipyard Emperium, sister vessels Sinichka , Filka , and Presnya – all named after rivers in Moscow – are being operated by the Moscow Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development (Moscow Deptrans). They are the first units of a planned fleet of 20 vessels that will serve the capital city and other nearby communities. The new ferry system will be the water transport system to be operated on the Moskva River in 16 years.

Each vessel has a welded aluminium hull, an LOA of 21 metres, a beam of 6.2 metres, a draught of only 1.4 metres, a displacement of 40 tonnes, and capacity for 80 passengers plus two crewmembers. Seating is available for 42 passengers on each ferry, and the main cabins are also fitted with USB charging ports, wifi connectivity, tables, toilets, and space for bicycles and scooters. The cabin layout can be rearranged to allow the operator to adjust the distances between the seats and to install armrests of varying widths.

An open upper deck is also accessible to passengers and is the only area on each ferry where smoking is allowed.

The ferries are all of modular construction with each ferry’s wheelhouse, main cabin, and other structural elements being built as complete, separate components. This enables the ferries to be easily dismantled for transport to anywhere in Russia by rail and then quickly re-assembled within seven days.

The ferries are also ice-capable. Recently completed operational trials on the Moskva showed that the vessels can also easily navigate under mild winter conditions with broken surface ice, though year-round operations are planned for the entire fleet.

The ferries are each fitted with 500kWh lithium iron phosphate battery packs that supply power to two 134kW motors. This configuration can deliver a maximum speed of 11.8 knots, a cruising speed of just under 10 knots, and a range of 150 kilometres.

Emperium said the transfer of rotation of electric motors to the propeller is carried out by direct drive. As a propulsion installation, a pulling rotary propeller-steering column with double screws is used. The installation of double pulling screws, with similar power, allows an operator to increase the efficiency of the propulsion system to deliver a slightly higher speed or to reduce energy consumption. This arrangement also provides the ferries with enhanced manoeuvrability necessary for navigating in close quarters.

The batteries themselves have projected service lives of 10 to 12 years and are fitted with safety features such as built-in fire extinguishers and gas vents. Quick-disconnect features allow the batteries to be easily removed for replacement or maintenance.

Some of our readers have expressed disquiet at our publication of reviews and articles describing new vessels from Russia. We at Baird Maritime can understand and sympathise with those views. However, despite the behaviour of the country’s leaders, we believe that the maritime world needs to learn of the latest developments in vessel design and construction there.

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One dead, one hospitalized after boat capsizes on Hoover Reservoir Sunday night

One man died and another was hospitalized after their boat capsized Sunday night on Hoover Reservoir .

The men were out fishing around 8 p.m. Sunday on the reservoir when the boat capsized, according to Genoa Township officials.

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Fire crews managed to pull both men from the water. Both were taken to Mount Carmel St. Ann's hospital. One of the men was in critical condition and the other's condition was described as "fair," officials said.

The man who had been in critical condition died from his injuries. His name has not yet been released.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is investigating the incident.

What is Hoover Reservoir?

Hoover Reservoir, located off of Sunbury Road near Westerville, encompasses more than 4,000 acres, including a lake that is frequently used for boating and fishing.

The park also includes options for picnics, bird watching, a disc golf course and hiking. The parks spans both Delaware and Franklin counties.

Hoover Reservoir was initially built as a water supply facility in 1955 by the city of Columbus.

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