About Us
Columbia River Cruises
is a family owned and operated tour boat company providing unparalleled access to the Columbia River through a unique experience on a classic yacht.
We give you the opportunity to explore a familiar landscape from a new perspective.
CRC operates on a flexible schedule, allowing guests multiple tour opportunities.
Aaron Schlosser, Owner
Aaron spent September of 2018 to July of 2020 completely refurbishing The Constance. He hauled her out, and refitted her with a new engine, new through-hulls and valves, new electronics, and new paint. He then worked with a crew to pilot her to her new home to Astoria, Oregon.
Aaron is passionate about boat restoration. He has restored The Pax, a 24-foot Bristol sloop rig sailboat and built a stitch and glue fiberglass sailboat before restoring The Constance. He also worked in the boat restoration shop as an historic interpreter at Mystic Seaport Museum.
Aaron has enjoyed a life-long connection to the natural environment. He has led kayak tours off Mount Desert Island in Maine’s Acadia National Park, cored pro-glacial lake sediments as a science researcher in Antarctica, built trails in Ecola State Park, eradicated invasive Spartina sp. grass in Willapa Bay. (continued below)
Aaron has an MA in Elementary Education. He became a teacher because he wanted to help people gain the understanding needed to fully connect to wild places.
He strives to help people understand what they are experiencing, recognize their role in their environment, and take it on as theirs to defend. Dad to Emmily and Howard, Husband to Serena, Friend to many, he named his ship after his mother Constance “Connie” Schlosser. It’s a family thing.