http://www.nautiques.com/blog Correct Craft CEO Blog en-us Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:46:30 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss CakePHP editor@correctcraft.com webmaster@correctcraft.com http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/ralph-meloon-boat-show-star There are few companies who have been around for 85 years and have an employee who has been involved with the company since day one. At Nautique we are fortunate to have someone who has been with us from the beginning and, more importantly, continues to contribute daily; Ralph Meloon, son of our founder who is 92 years old. Ralph comes to the office every day and is a huge encouragement to ... Mon, 8 Mar 2010 02:29:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/ralph-meloon-boat-show-star http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/miami-nautique-international I have written many times about how a big part of our success at Nautique is related to our awesome dealers and one of the very best of those dealers is Miami Nautique International (formerly Miami Ski Nautique.) Miami Nautique International (MNI) is owned by Henrik and Kim Laursen and they do a great job; in fact they are like rock stars in Miami. Recently, I spent three days in Miami Beach... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 21:23:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/miami-nautique-international http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/haiti-nautique-cares Have you ever worked somewhere that made you feel like you were surrounded by some of the best people in the world? That’s how I feel, especially after seeing how our team has responded to the recent earthquake in Haiti. Almost immediately after the earthquake, Nautique employees began collecting items to send to Haiti. Our employees wanted to do something to help and it was exciting to see ... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:39:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/haiti-nautique-cares http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/nautique-slider-at-owc Last Friday night Nautique and Orlando Watersports Center (OWC) fans joined together for the “Unveiling” of the all-new one-of-a-kind Nautique slider. As the new Nautique slider was unveiled the crowd was thrilled to see Team Nautique riders Danny Harf, Shaun Murray, JD Webb, Jimmy LaRiche and Shawn Watson hit it under the lights. The team was riding the cable and the crowd enjoyed watching... Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:14:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/nautique-slider-at-owc http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/real-customer-comments-on-the-ski-nautique-200 We love hearing feedback from customers, especially about the all-new Ski Nautique 200! The Ski Nautique 200 is such an incredible boat; our design and engineering team definitely hit a home run! Our team is constantly receiving positive phone calls, emails and letters from Nautique owners all over the world. So I would like to take a moment and share a few of these wonderful comments we h... Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:44:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/real-customer-comments-on-the-ski-nautique-200 http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/the-2010-nautique-difference Happy New Year! Spring is in sight and the Nautique team is preparing for a busy Boat Show season. We love Boat Show season which is an exciting opportunity for us to demonstrate once again why a Nautique is the best boat you can buy for your family. I’m often asked what sets Nautique apart from our competitors and while you probably think I’m biased, trust me when I say that the Nautiq... Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:28:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/the-2010-nautique-difference http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/merry-christmas-2009 On behalf of the entire Nautique team, I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. As many of you are probably well aware, faith is an important part of our culture at Nautique. This is a time of year in which we would like to take a moment and look beyond the commercialization of Christmas and celebrate the real reason for the season. I know it is a hectic time but I encourage yo... Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:29:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/merry-christmas-2009 http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/nautique-dealers-contributing-to-their-local-communities I can’t say it enough - Nautique has such an incredible group of dealers. Not only do they provide excellent customer service but they also give back to their local communities through out the year, especially during the holidays. This holiday season, many of our Nautique dealers are contributing to their communities by collecting food for crisis centers, giving donations to regional food ba... Mon, 7 Dec 2009 21:30:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/nautique-dealers-contributing-to-their-local-communities http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/dealer-sales-meeting This past week I was reminded again of one of the most important reasons why Nautique has been able to develop an incredible customer service reputation. We had a meeting with our dealers here in Orlando and what an incredible group of people they are! Great dealers are a key ingredient to making a boat manufacturer look good, and our dealers certainly make Nautique look really good! During ... Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:22:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/dealer-sales-meeting http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/awesome-nautique-dealers Each year our industry takes an evening to honor dealers identified by Boating Industry magazine as the best in our industry. This year’s “Top 100” celebration took place last night, here in our home town, of Orlando, Florida. While all Nautique dealers continually strive to be the best in the industry, today we are particularly proud of the nine Nautique dealers that were recognized at last... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:20:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/awesome-nautique-dealers http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/award-winning-year In some ways the global business environment of the past year has been a really tough. But, in other ways, it has been our company’s best year ever. Despite the difficult economic climate, the team at Nautique has not let up at all when it comes to making our boats and customer experience better and we are thankful that our efforts have been recognized. The Nautique team has proven once aga... Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:33:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/award-winning-year http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/85-years Last week we had an employee lunch at Nautique to celebrate 85 years of building the world’s best boats. That’s right, 85 years - that’s a long time! After 85 years of customers buying our boats (over 200,000) you could conclude that the world has had a pretty fair chance to evaluate what we do at Nautique. Millions of people have enjoyed Nautique boats and, after 85 years of the most critic... Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:52:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/85-years http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/talented-people-helping-others I always hate to lose good employees and was really disappointed a few months ago when our Team Manager, Kevin Durham, came into my office to resign. Kevin is a total class-act and did a great job here at Nautique. Kevin also is known for “marrying up” (just kidding Kevin, well, sort of…) and has an incredible wife, two time wakeboarding world champion, Emily Copeland Durham. When Kevin tol... Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:28:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/talented-people-helping-others http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/billion-dollar-baby It’s not every day you get to hang out with someone featured in that week’s Sports Illustrated. However, that is exactly what I got to do this past weekend when Bob “Billion Dollar Baby” Soven came over to my house for a little fun on the water. Bob is a Team Nautique member who totally dominated his wakeboard events this past year; in fact he did so well that his success was written up in this... Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:40:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/billion-dollar-baby http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/wake-awards Last night the wake industry got together for a great time of celebrating the annual Wake Awards. During this celebration select companies and athletes are honored for their accomplishments over the past year. I am happy to write that at last night’s celebration Nautique was honored with the “Buzz Brand of the Year” award! If I could have picked one award to win, it would have been the... Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:45:00 GMT http://www.nautiques.com/blog/index/wake-awards