Wednesday, October 13, 1999
Paddlewheeler captain becoming a nun
'Sister Mary Captain' is boss of The Colonel
BY JANE PRENDERGAST
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Colonel isn't the biggest, the smallest or the fanciest boat in the Tall Stacks harbor. The paddle-wheeler did, however, come the greatest distance, and it carries one incomparable thing — its captain. She's a nun-to-be.
Capt. Joy Manthey is back on the water after two years of training to become a sister, an experience that nets her a river nickname: “Sister Mary Captain.” She'll take her vows next year with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille.
Until then, she's aboard The Colonel, a 127-foot, twin-screw excursion vessel that can hold 750 people. The 14-year-old boat hails from Galveston, Texas, making it the one with the longest trip to reach Tall Stacks. It arrived Fridayafter 11 days: first on the Intracoastal Waterway from Texas to New Orleans; then on the Mississippi River to Cairo, Ill., then up the Ohio to Cincinnati.
“People always ask how we got here,” Capt. Manthey said. “It was a nice trip. We saw porpoises when we left Galveston and catfish in the water up here.”
The Colonel takes more of a beating than most of the other ships because of the salt water in which it makes its home. That means extra maintenance is required, some of which was done on the way here from Galveston.
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