The Fascinating Story of Correct Craft: 100 Years, One Family, Every Creditor Paid

Every other American boat company from the 1920s is dead. This one is still run by the founder's family — and the reason why has almost nothing to do with boats. This is the 100-year story of Correct Craft, the Florida boat builder that started in a Pine Castle garage in 1925 with a Ford Model T engine and an old airplane propeller — and somehow outlived Chris-Craft, Century, Lyman, and every other family name that defined American boating. One family. One hundred years. Zero unpaid debts. And one bankruptcy filing in 1958 that took twenty-five years to erase, one creditor at a time. From W.C. Meloon's founding mission to build "boats to the glory of God," to the wartime miracle that delivered hundreds of assault boats for the crossing of the Rhine, to the invention of the Ski Nautique and the rise of the modern wakeboard boat — this is the story of how a family treated its name as the contract and the boat as the receipt.