An Interview with Ralph Meloon

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Ralph Meloon was co-owner of the family business Correct Craft, a pleasure-boat manufacturing company. After a series of struggles in their contract with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, the company finally was pushed into bankruptcy when an inspector refused to approve an entire shipload of boats. The government inspectors’ measures were meant to thwart a company whose principles prohibited bribes, and had already created significant costs by sending boats back to the factory for reworking. Though a court canceled 80 percent of their company’s debt, the Meloon brothers knew that they had to repay every cent anyway. Thus, over the course of 18 years, they tracked down each one of their 228 creditors and paid off their debts. Walter Meloon even was convicted to forgive the government inspector. Their actions were a witness to several of what running a business God’s way truly entailed. This interview between Ralph Meloon and Ron Blue walks through some of the challenges and details of that time in Ralph Meloon's life.

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