North Wales Watersports has already signed up more than 50 companies within the industry and will build further with funding from Europe, the Welsh Development Agency, the Wales TouristBoard and local authorities.
Had that forward planning been done, said Mr Colman, then the public bodies funding the set up of the garden - namely the Welsh assembly government, the Wales TouristBoard and the WDA - "might have deduced" that they would soon be asked for extra cash.