May 17, 2007

The Wakeboard Report's Ride Featured on CorrectCraftFan.com and Vice Versa

Correct Craft Fan sites come in a few different flavors. Some, tailor to one specific kind of Correct Craft - right down to the model year. Others cast the net slightly wider but still keep the vision tilted toward a more modern variety of Correct Craft boats - particularly the ones badged as "Nautiques".

But one site casts the net as wide as possible and covers the entire spectrum of Correct Craft boats built over the past 80-or-so years. That site is CorrectCraftFan.com and our boat was chosen at semi-random to be featured on their home page.

CorrectCraftFan.com is a site that has been around for awhile now, and has had time to build up a solid community of experts. To that end, show me a better, hardcore Correct Craft enthusiast site. Don't waste your time in that search - you won't be able to do that - because there simply isn't one. The most important part of a site like that is the community itself; the contributing members who bring their expertise, knowledge, dedication to the brand and a willingness to help others. The amount of knowledge on CorrectCraftFan.com is staggering; from detailed instructions and photo documentation of stringer replacement projects to advice about replacement powerplants in Mustang 16's, if you have a vintage Correct Craft (or even a newer one) you need to add CorrectCraftFan.com to your bookmarks, and to your list of sites to visit daily.

With the amount of Correct Craft owners out there and the variety of boats they produced, there is certainly room for praise across all three of the big Correct Craft fan-supported sites. I could post a blog just like this one about PlanetNautique.com as they seem to have captured a nice amount of registered users plus the attention of Correct Craft's Corporate Marketing department (hey so have I although in my case it did not secure me a spot on their promotional team and thus a Correct Craft 236 Crossover). To a lesser extent, The2001.com nicely fills a niche although I can't imagine posting a long entry about that site, since I own and run it. Don't forget that we're self deprecating over here at The Wakeboard Report, not self praising.

It is a neat triad that these fan sites create, but when we bought our project boat, a 1971 Correct Craft Southwind, guess where we went? You have one guess and you already used it, and correctly guessed CorrectCraftFan.com. Congratulations, your prize is to go visit their site and browse their fantastic Reference Section.

If you own a Correct Craft, or are restoring one, or want to learn about the history of just about any boat for which there is printed brochures or other promotional documentation - CorrectCraftFan.com is your source. Thanks to the site owner Keith for featuring our Super Air Nautique.

Posted by erik