re: What do you imagine the main attraction to be at each port on this cruise?

Pensacola and Nola are only places worth stopping there. Might as well extend the cruise up the Mississippi River to Baton Rouge, then up the Red River to Alexandria and Shreveport.

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Pensacola and Nola are only places worth stopping there. Might as well extend the cruise up the Mississippi River to Baton Rouge, then up the Red River to Alexandria and Shreveport.

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No ocean going vessel (especially of cruise ship scale )can go up the Red River that far.

They can’t even go past BR on the Mississippi.

Yes, I guess depends how big the ship is. If it's a barge size. Red River can handle either 6 or 9 barge tow up to Port of Shreveport.

This looks like it takes the intracoastal in East Nola which I don't think intracoastal can handle ocean going tanker sized vessels. Just Mississippi from delta to Baton Rouge up to US 190.

I didn’t say you couldn’t build a party boat. But your barge that goes to Shreveport wouldn’t be same that you’ll take to sea. Not even for a littoral route in the calm gulf. It would stay in the river.

Most cruise ships have a draft of around 20 foot.

Channel depth from the mouth to port of Baton Rouge is 45 foot.

But north of it all the way to St Louis? It’s just 9.

Only wide flat bottomed vessels can really navigate that.

But you are right: the inter coastal can’t take barges built for the ocean. It’s why it exists. It spans almost the entire gulf coast to allow shallow barges to move without hitting the Gulf.