WAUSA, Neb. (AP) — Two carpenter brothers from the northeast Nebraska village of Wausa fondly remember the days when the boats they built graced the waters of nearby Lewis & Clark Lake.

During the mid-1950s and early 1960s, Don and Harlan Hult produced and sold hundreds of HultCraft wooden boats. They used pre-assembled hulls as part of their boat kits or as foundations for fully assembled boats crafted by the brothers and their workers.

The business grew as their boats reigned supreme on the 16-mile-long lake, an impoundment of the Missouri River.

By 1965 he and his brother were leaving the boat business because people had started buying lower-maintenance metal or fiberglass boats.

Harlan Holt says, “It was fun, but things change.”