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Business View Magazine
White Lake Marine
Adapting and expanding a niche market
White Lake Marine has just celebrated its 60th year in
operation, having opened in 1955 on beautiful White
Lake in southeastern North Carolina. It is the oldest
Correct Craft dealership in the world, selling the com-
pany’s renowned brand of Nautique, inboard motor,
ski and wakeboard boats. David deAndrade is White
Lake Marine’s current General Manager. His parents,
Carl and Diane, bought the dealership in 1985, be-
coming its fourth owners. According to deAndrade,
his father, Carl, was a chemical engineer who had left
