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Cruise
West Jobs
Cruise West (formerly Alaska Sightseeing/Cruise West), a
Seattle-based firm, was established in 1973 by Charles
(Chuck) West and his son, Richard (Dick) West. During the
70s and early 80s, the firm was primarily an operator of
motorcoach tours and sightseeing on Alaska-Yukon highways
and in major Alaska cities. The company also operated
dayboat cruises on Alaska’s Prince William Sound and
Inside Passage. In 1989 Cruise West acquired a small
cruise ship, the 52-guest Spirit of Glacier Bay. The next
year, they began offering a new series of overnight
cruises in Glacier Bay which departed from Juneau. This
itinerary was later extended to include Sitka and
Admiralty Island. Since then, the company has acquired new
cruise ships at a rate of almost a ship a year. Cruise
West now owns and operates a fleet of seven small cruise
ships and one motoryacht, with capacities ranging from 78
to 114 guests. The company has grown to become the largest
small-ship cruise line in North America. A new flagship,
the Spirit of Oceanus, began service in 2001. The company
offers seven different Alaska cruise itineraries between
April and September. Itineraries range from three-night
cruises on Prince William Sound to ten-night voyages
between Seattle and the northern limits of the Inside
Passage-Glacier Bay, Skagway and Juneau. Besides Alaska,
Cruise West’s destinations include British Columbia and
the Islands of the Pacific Northwest, the Columbia &
Snake Rivers (the two largest rivers in Western America),
the California Wine Country from San Francisco, and Baja
Mexico’s Sea of Cortés. Cruise West takes a
destination-focused, "less is more" approach to
adventure cruising, although you certainly won't be
lacking for comfort or quality of amenities. Cruise West's
small ships are able to enter waterways that larger cruise
ships cannot, providing an up-close experience made even
more meaningful by lectures and programs from onboard
naturalist guides. Cruise West is owned by the West family
of Seattle. Its ships were built in America. Chuck West is
now Chairman Emeritus and Dick West is Chairman and CEO.
In 2010 Cruise West is starting river cruises in Europe
aboard the luxurious Amadeus Diamond river vessel .
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Cruise
ships and itineraries:
Corinthian II:
Malta registered, built 1992, 4,200 gross tons, 114
passengers, 75 crew members.
Itineraries: Antarctica/Falkland Islands out of
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Spirit of Oceanus:
Bahamas registered, built 1991, 1.263 gross tons,
120 passengers, 70 crew members.
Itineraries: Australia/New Zealand out of Auckland -
New Zealand and Sydney - Australia;
Australia/Indonesia out of Darwin - Australia;
Southeast Asia out of Singapore; India/Maldives/Sri
Lanka out of Chennai (Madras) - India;
India/Arabia out of Mumbai (Bombay) - India; Middle
East out of Muscat - Oman; Mediterranean out of
Alexandria - Egypt, Istanbul - Turkey, Valleta -
Malta, Civitivecchia (Rome) and Venice - Italy;
Western/Northern Europe out of Barcelona - Spain,
Honfleur - France and Oslo - Norway; Transatlantic
out of London - UK; Transpacific out of Guayacuil -
Equador; Panama Canal out of Palm Beach, FL; South
America out of Panama City - Panama; South Pacific
out of Easter Island - Chile, Papeete (Tahiti) -
French Polynesia and Lautoca - Fiji Islands;
Atlantic Canada out of St. Johns, NF; World Cruise. |
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Galapagos Explorer II:
Equador registered, built 1990, 4,200 gross tons,
100 passengers, 67 crew members.
Itineraries: Galapagos Islands out of Quito -
Equador. |
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Isabela II:
Equador registered, built 1979, 4,200 gross tons, 40
passengers, 27 crew members.
Itineraries: Galapagos Islands - Equador. |
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Spirit of Endeavour:
US registered, built 1983, 99 gross tons, 102
passengers, 28 crew members.
Itineraries: Alaska/Canada out of Seattle, WA and
Juneau, AK; West Coast Mexico out of Cabo San Lucas. |
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Spirit of 98:
US registered, built 1984, 96 gross tons, 96
passengers, 26 crew members.
Itineraries: Pacific Northwest, river cruises out of
Portland, OR. |
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Spirit of Discovery:
US registered, built 1987, 94 gross tons, 84
passengers, 21 crew members.
Itineraries: Alaska, Inside Passage, British
Columbia out of Seattle, WA and Juneau, AK; Pacific
Northwest, river cruises out of Portland, OR. |
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Spirit of Alaska:
US registered, built 1980, 97 gross tons, 78
passengers, 21 crew members.
Itineraries: Alaska, California. |
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Spirit of Columbia:
US registered, built 1979, 98 gross tons, 78
passengers, 21 crew members.
Itineraries: Alaska, Inside Passage, British
Columbia out of Seattle, WA and Juneau, AK. |
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Pacific Explorer:
Panama registered, built 1995, 1.800 gross tons, 100
passengers, 25 crew members.
Itineraries: Costa Rica out of Los Suenos; Panama
Canal out of Colon - Panama and Los Suenos - Costa
Rica. |
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Spirit of Yorktown: US
registered, built 1988, 97 gross tons, 138
passengers, 42 crew members.
Itineraries: Alaska/Canada out of Seattle, WA and
Juneau, AK. |
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Amadeus Diamond:
US registered, built 2009, 1,566 gross tons, 148
passengers, 35 crew members.
Itineraries: Europe - Danube, Rhine, Main and
Mosel rivers. |
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