Joey Binkrey watches Captain Heckert as he pilots the ships down the Ohio River. (Robert McGraw/WOUB)A flag is flown over the sternwheel boats by helicopter right before the start of the 2016 Sternwheel Festival Race. (Robert McGraw/WOUB)Captain Heckert announces the start of the sternwheel race to his passengers during the 2016 Marietta, Ohio Sternwheel Festival. (Robert McGraw/WOUB)Captain Heckert steers the P.A. Denny with just two levers as he races the other sternwheel boats down the Ohio River during the sternwheel race at the 2016 Sternwheel Festival held the weekend after ever Labor Day. (Robert McGraw/WOUB)Clay, a friend of the Heckert family, shows off his P.A. Denny hat after the sternwheel races have completed and the boats docked back onto the shores of Marietta, OH. (Robert McGraw/WOUB)Boats race down the Ohio River during the 2016 Sternwheel Festival held in Marietta, Ohio. (Robert McGraw/WOUB)Joseph Cooke, 12, watches from the steering cabin of the P.A. Denny of how the other boats are doing during the sternwheel race. (Robert McGraw/WOUB)A flag is flown over the sternwheel boats by helicopter right before the start of the 2016 Sternwheel Festival Race. (Robert McGraw/WOUB)Tanner Ferguson, 6, (right) and his grandfather Scot Heckert (left) sets off the horn of the P.A. Denny announcing its completion of the race down the Ohio River. (Robert McGraw/WOUB)
