American Cruise Lines reviews that its fashionable riverboat American Jazz is repositioning from the Mississippi River to the West Coast for brand spanking new California river cruises. Beginning in February 2023, they would be the first of their sort for the reason that Forties.
Already underway alongside the journey from the Mississippi River to San Francisco Bay, American Jazz is predicted to transit the Panama Canal within the coming days. American Jazz’s repositioning voyage is following an identical path to that taken by the historic U.S. mail ships of the Gold Rush period that carried passengers, mail, and gold between the East and West coasts.
The skilled nautical crew aboard the ship is supported every day of the voyage by the corporate’s shoreside operations crew. Throughout the journey, American’s crew and the shoreside crew carefully monitor vessel techniques, climate forecasts, and voyage progress.
American Jazz’s arrival to San Francisco Bay heralds a historic improvement in U.S. river cruising, as it’s the first U.S. constructed riverboat to supply in a single day cruises all through the Bay and California Delta in over 80 years.
American Jazz will embark alongside the road’s first 8-day San Francisco Bay cruise on February 24, 2023. The new river cruises will sail San Francisco Bay and Wine Country: cruising the Napa River, Sacramento River, and San Joaquin River.
“Exploring San Francisco Bay and the California Delta by U.S. riverboat is a momentous occasion for domestic river cruising and another first for American Cruise Lines. We are proud to provide this new opportunity for our guests to experience the joys of cruising close to home, as they discover yet another beautiful area of the country by riverboat,” stated Charles B. Robertson, president & CEO of American Cruise Lines. “American continues to expand the possibilities for exceptional domestic small ship cruises by introducing brand new U.S. flagged riverboats and small cruise ships each year.”
American Cruise Lines is providing the 8-day San Francisco Bay itinerary, roundtrip from San Francisco, in February and March, and once more in November and December 2023.