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Craft your ideal river tour, including  a stop for a delightful meal at one of the river's Marina Restaurants, followed by a mesmerizing Sunset Cruise.

We pride ourselves as one of Stockton's premier Custom Tours and Charter Boat operators, specializing in private tours for no more than six passengers. Our tours start with a minimum  2 hour tour, and you can extend your experience with additional hourly increments, up to a maximum of 6 hours. Operating year-round, weather permitting, our seasoned captain ensures a comfortable cruise on our 42’ Sabre Yacht. Explore our website to learn more about us, consider your Charter Choices, select a date, and effortlessly book your private charter.

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"Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world"                                                                                                                                            Ted Turner

While visiting Captain Ray's Delta Boat Charters website, explore the charm of Stockton's Delta with an exclusive captained boat charter on the San Joaquin River—book your personalized charter with Captain Ray’s River Tours. Elevate your Charter Boat experience and indulge yourself, along with friends and family, on a Private Cruise aboard Captain Ray's luxurious 42' Sabre Yacht.

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Port Stockton CA cruise ship schedule shows timetable calendars of all arrival and departure dates by month. The port's schedule lists all ships (in links) with cruises going to or leaving from Stockton CA, California. To see the full itineraries (ports of call dates and arrival / departure times) and their lowest rates – just follow the corresponding ship-link.

Stockton is a San Joaquin River port and city in California USA (San Joaquin County) with population around 320,000 (metro around 780,000). By population, Stockton is California's 11th-largest (USA's 58th-largest). San Joaquin River (length 366 mi / 589 km) starts in Sierra Nevada (Ansel Adams Wilderness), flows through northern San Joaquin Valley (agricultural region) and empties into the Pacific Ocean via Suisun Bay (San Francisco Bay).

As cruise port, Stockton CA was included in the 2023 schedule of the USA's largest cruise company - ACL-American Cruise Lines .

Next table shows ACL's 7-night/8-day "San Francisco Bay Cruise" itinerary introduced in 2023 on the American Jazz ship .

The voyage's prices started from USD 6330 per person. Overnight port stays are scheduled in either Sacramento (days 4-5) or Napa (days 5-6).

ACL's San Francisco Bay Cruise itinerary features scenic cruising in San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay (an evening stop in Vallejo), as well as cruising on the Napa River and San Joaquin River. The San Francisco Bay cruise includes passing the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and Treasure Island. A guided San Francisco city tour visits Ghirardelli Square and Fisherman’s Wharf. The cruisetour's signature experiences also include NASCAR-style driving (at Stockton 99 Speedway) and visiting a Napa Valley Winery (wine-tasting excursion). A guided Old Sacramento tour visits the underground city, the port, and the California State Railroad Museum.

Stockton is the state's first settlement with an originally given English name (not of Spanish or Indian origin). The town was established in the mid-19th-century (1849-founded/1850-incorporated) during the California Gold Rush 1848-55) and was originally intended as a supply point for the gold miners in the San Joaquin Valley. It was the road hub connecting to the gold settlements and also the northern terminus of Millerton Road (Stockton-Los Angeles Road).

Stockton is located close to San Francisco (road distance ~85 mi / 135 km via highway I-580 W) and to Sacramento (~50 mi / 80 km via highway I-5 N). The city's current-day economy is based on cargo shipping, agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare (CommonSpirit Health, Kaiser, Damero), higher education (UOP-University of the Pacific, San Joaquin Delta College), tourism (museums and art galleries, annual festivals).

Stockton Airport (civil-military airport) is approx 3 mi / 5 km southeast of downtown and is primarily used (~90%) for cargo shipping (by manufacturing and agricultural companies), also by the military (~3%), and for passenger shipping (~3%). Regularly scheduled flights (by Allegiant Air) link to Las Vegas (Nevada) and Phoenix (Arizona).

Port Stockton

Stockton has a deepwater port (locode USSCK, FTZ-designated/Foreign Trade Zone) and serves as a seaport for the shipping traffic between the Pacific Ocean and California's Central Valley. In 1933, Port Stockton was modernized and its Deepwater Shipping Channel (San Joaquin River was dredged/deepened) linking to the Pacific Ocean was completed. Two north-to-south running highways (Interstate/I- 5, and State Route /SR 99) pass through the city.

Port Stockton is approx 86 mi (140 km) east of San Francisco City (waterway/river distance), covers an area of approx 6,6 mi2 (17 km2 / 4200 acres), an additional ~0,28 mi2 (0,715 km2) dockside warehousing area, and 17 docks, a shipside rail track (5 mi / 8 km of rail lines). The Port can accommodate ocean-going vessels with max LOA 900 ft / 270 m, max draft 35 ft / 10 m, and max weight 60,000 tons (fully loaded).

Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel is an artificial channel (length 41 mi / 66 km) linking Suisun Bay/San Francisco Bay with the Sacramento River. The Channel's depth (~37 ft / 11 m) allows Panamax-sized ships (able to transit the Panama Canal ) to access the port/city. The Stockton Channel can handle ocean-going vessels with max LOA length 900 ft (270 m) and max weight 60,000 TNs/short tons (54000 tons) when fully loaded.

The Port has annual cargo shipping capacity of ~2,1+ million US tons.

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First California river cruise in 80 years sets sail aboard ACL's ship American Jazz

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Exploring The California Delta

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The region's abundant natural beauty is a legacy to be shared among boaters, fishermen, watersports fans, and nature lovers.

Egrets in San Joaquin River

Snowy egrets rise to pursue breakfast. Our boat has startled some fingerlings right toward this flock of snowy egrets that had been hunting among snags piled up in a glossy bend on Steamboat Slough. Around the next bend you may see great egrets, little blue herons, sand hill cranes, and Canada geese — all at home in the Delta wetlands. (Photo: Pat Rains)

The Delta is California's wet and wild heartland: Six rivers cascade out of the snowcapped Sierra Nevada range and merge in the central valley to form 1,000 miles of recreational waterways. Now tamed by dams and levees, this labyrinth of navigable streams entwine 57 islands full of state parks, vineyards, and Gold Rush villages before flowing down to San Francisco Bay. Only a few miles southwest of Sacramento, the state capital, the Delta region is surprisingly rural and sparsely populated. It's like stepping 50 years into the past. Yet 40 small marinas and 100 launch ramps thrive along the tree-lined channels and tranquil river bends. From a boat, it's like gliding through a forest.

Very few roads transit the Delta; some of the more remote islands are accessible only by boat. Others, like the Brannan Island State Recreation Area, are popular destinations. Near every cluster of docks and free anchorage areas, boaters seem to find something of interest: a woodsy little restaurant open for breakfast, an RV camp with cabins, an 1860 gold baron's mansion recently converted from a museum to a wine-tasting lounge. A four-car cable ferry and a drawbridge still operate on call; if you can't raise the tender on VHF Channel 9, just toot your horn "one long, one short."

Houseboat anchored out

Vacation houseboat rentals are popular in the California Delta, like this family sized double-decker on the San Joaquin River that comes with lots of toys. (Photo: Gene Beley)

That low-key charm is what attracts boaters here to cruise, fish, water-ski, paddleboard, kayak, or do some casual sightseeing. Families with children spend annual vacations on their favorite sections of the rivers; years later, their grown kids come back to share it with their own families.

Sacramento Delta Facts

  • The Sacramento is the largest river in California, with a watershed of 27,500 square miles.
  • There are 170,400 registered boats spread among the 515,264 adult full-time residents of the Delta region, reported the California Department of Water Resources in 2000.
  • The Delta is the physical hub of California's two largest water-distribution systems, which supply drinking water to 24,835,970 people, or two-thirds of the state's population, and irrigation water for over 7 million acres of farmland.
  • The most popular recreational activities in the Delta are boating, fishing, leisure cruising, wakeboarding, waterskiing, swimming, and bird watching. The Delta is home to hundreds of wildlife species and is a part of the Pacific Flyway, providing critical habitat for thousands of migratory birds, including sandhill cranes.

Enjoy It Year-Round

Pleasure boating is a year-round passion in the Delta. Spring, summer, and fall are the best times to water-ski, cruise the countryside, and visit the vineyards, but striped-bass fishing reaches its peak during May and November, when the fish migrate through the Delta en masse. Summers can be hot as an aft-deck barbecue, so we like to anchor in the shade of giant sycamores that top the levees, such as along Andrus Island. (See map below.) Fourth of July fireworks draw hundreds of spectators to the beaches and anchorages around the tip of Mandeville Island, on the San Joaquin River. For waterskiing, check out the three-mile stretch south of Courtland, where the Pear Festival is held.

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Map: ©2016 Mirto Art Studio

Winters are mild enough for wakeboarding events to be held at Snug Harbor, on Steamboat Slough. In September, the king salmon arrive to spawn in the pristine headlands of the Sacramento and Mokelumne rivers. Shad also migrate into the San Joaquin in spring, but sturgeon and three kinds of bass (striped, largemouth, and smallmouth) are permanent residents. The Thunderboat Races roar into Isleton each October. More than 20 yacht clubs are active year-round, but they put on end of year Holiday Lighted Boats Parades and traditional Opening Day Regattas just for fun.

Sacramento Delta in the fall

Autumn brings a brilliant change in the foliage, here reflecting across one of the Delta's tranquil waterways. With the kids back in school, some couples favor this colorful season to visit the Delta. (Photo: Pat Rains)

Spring and fall have lots going on ashore, too: the annual Asparagus Festival (Stockton), the Pear Festival (Courtland), the Crawdad and Cajun Festival (Isleton), the Chinese Heritage Festival (Locke), and vineyard flowering and grape-harvest festivals at several wineries in Lodi and Clarksburg. Raised levees protect most islands' interiors for agriculture: pecan and pear orchards, wine vineyards, and vegetable gardens. Farmers set up market stands on Brannan Island and elsewhere to sell their veggies, cherries, pecans, honeys, and jams — all "Delta Grown." Canada geese vacation here by the thousands in the fall, when the sycamores turn to gold and the Sierra Nevada gets it first dusting of snow.

Airplane parked at Pirate's Lair marina

Seaplane tied up at Korth's Pirates Lair Marina, along the banks of the Sacramento River, one of almost 100 marinas in the Delta. (Photo: Gene Beley)

Getting There

The roughly triangular Delta region touches five counties and is bounded by the towns of Antioch, Rio Vista, Sacramento, and Stockton. Locals refer to the lower, middle, and upper Delta, meaning depths as well as north-to-south orientation. You can rent or charter a wide variety of boats in the Delta, ranging from bass skiffs and ski boats to shady pontoons, posh houseboats, and more. And that's a great plan for sampling the Delta for your first time, especially the middle and upper reaches, such as around the region known locally as the "Delta Loop" and up to Walnut Grove and Locke. But eventually, most vacationers get there with their own boats.

Walnut Grove Bridge opening

Walnut Grove Bridge opens for a regatta of classic power yachts that ply the Sacramento River each year. Even closed, this major bridge's clearance at high water is 21 feet, or 24 feet at low water. (Photo: Gene Beley).

If you're towing a boat on Interstate 5, California's north-south artery, the easiest exit is Highway 12 west toward Rio Vista. But many side roads heading west from Stockton, Lodi, or Sacramento get you in.

Oceangoing yachts in San Francisco can cruise upstream through San Pablo Bay to Suisun Bay. The broad mouth of the shallower San Joaquin River flows in from the east, but deeper-draft boats (drawing up to 10 feet) should continue north instead, staying in the Sacramento River's main stream.

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Cocktails in the cockpit. (Photo: Gene Beley)

Rio Vista Bridge

Rio Vista Bridge is lowered. (Photo: Pat Rains)

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Lovingly restored vintage Chris Craft. (Photo: Gene Beley)

The town of Rio Vista lies to port, and straight ahead is the landmark Rio Vista Lift Bridge: 14 feet of vertical clearance when down, 144 feet when up. A mile later, the main stream of the Sacramento peels off to the east, now a much narrower waterway but with 10-foot minimum depth and dozens of feeder streams, creeks, and sloughs to explore. The Isleton bascule bridge below Walnut Grove has 15-foot vertical clearance at high water. Here, taller boats may need to wait 15 minutes or toot for an opening. The Delta Loop has been a favorite destination for larger cruising yachts, thanks to deeper water and bigger docks. In fact, a boat drawing as much as 10 feet can start at San Francisco and meander through the Delta to arrive at Sacramento's historic waterfront two weeks later — a terrific family vacation! Smaller boats have an advantage: They can navigate all the Sacramento River waterways mentioned above, plus they can explore the meandering San Joaquin and the four twisting forks of the Mokelumne River. In the San Joaquin main stream, maximum depths reach nine feet in some spots. Boats from the St. Francis Yacht Club, next to the Golden Gate Bridge, frequent the club's private Tinsley Island, which has nine feet of water off its north side and lies only five miles west of Stockton.

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Charts with depths and bridge heights make it easy to plan your voyage through the maze of Delta waterways. (Photo: Gene Beley)

In the middle Delta, boats drawing less than eight-and-a-half feet can use the cross-channel gates to navigate from the Sacramento to the rest of the Delta. In all river systems, some side streams flow downhill for maybe a mile, then fade into tules, which are marshy no-wake lakes that create pristine fishing, kayaking, and bird-watching.

"It's all about the journey, not the destination," reads a hand-lettered sign in a remote Delta anchorage. Note that recreational boats shouldn't enter the Sacramento Deep-Water Ship Channel, which starts four miles north of Rio Vista.

Charts and Guidebooks

Planning your Delta vacation starts with charts showing water depths and bridge elevations, because your boat's draft and height will shape your itinerary. The following charts are useful for planning and navigating.

NOAA charts No. 18660 through No. 18663 cover the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River.

The Delta: Suisun Bay, Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers , published by Fish-n-Map Company is a foldout waterproof chart with GPS data.

The Sacramento River Boating Guide by Bill Corp contains 43 large-scale charts and reams of local knowledge and covers Rio Vista to Knights Landing. 

"The California Delta Boaters Map and Visitors Guide," from the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, is an accurate foldout chart that shows local boating services on the reverse.

Get tide charts online or at any marina or tackle shop; you'll need this information because most of the Delta waterways are tidal. The Coast Guard 11th District weekly Local Notice to Mariners has details about temporary drought and flood barriers.

Purchase a laminated San Joaquin River and Delta Navigation Chart (79) from Waterproof Charts . Even better, BoatUS Members can save on Waterproof Charts, check out the "Resources" page in your account to learn more.

Gold Rush Glory

Gold fever struck in 1849 at Sutter's Mill, on the American River, a feeder stream of the mighty Sacramento. By 1850, as many as 28 steam-driven paddle wheelers were carrying hundreds of prospectors upstream from San Francisco, a week's voyage. Today, Sutter's Fort State Historical Park isn't far from eight marinas in downtown Sacramento. The restored 1890 Delta Queen paddle wheeler is now a landmark restaurant. You'll also find Sutter Creek, Sutter Island, Prospect Island, Whiskey Creek, Miner Slough, and Steamboat Landing on Steamboat Slough.

Chinese medicine store in Locke California

The Chinese Medicine Store in Locke has a 150-year history. The whole village is a living museum from Gold Rush glory days. (Photo: Pat Rains)

Chinese immigrants came to pan for nuggets in the gold streams, but many stayed through the 1890s to build the Pacific Railroad. In 1918, a few of the more successful Chinese businessmen bought a chunk of the Delta near Railroad Cut, off the Sacramento River. There they built their own town, now called Locke. It has always been an island of Chinese culture on the frontier.

Main street in Locke California

Main Street in the sleepy Gold Rush village of Lock. Come on and set a spell.

Today, Locke's three historic streets are preserved as a National Historic Landmark, drawing intrepid sightseers to visit the Chinese Herbal Medicine shop, the Dai Loy museum, or to have their fortunes told while eating banana splits at the Lockport Grill and Fountain. Boaters who dock at Walnut Grove Public Marina can walk the few hundred yards to explore Locke.

Many of the islands in the lower Delta (Frank's Tract, New Hope Tract, Empire Tract) were land grants also purchased by prospectors who'd gotten rich quick in the gold fields. In fact, most of the islands you see today were dredged up from the tule marshes that had flooded naturally for eons. Levees were created by dredges to shield the fertile farm islands from annual flooding. Dredging was so critical to the Delta's existence that Rio Vista has a whole little museum devoted to the steam-powered clam-shell dredge.

California Delta Events

Frozen Bun Run Rusty Porthole Restaurant Bethel Island, CA

Delta Loop Crab Feed Lighthouse Resort Isleton, CA

Clean Up Weekend Marina West Yacht Club Iselton, CA

San Joaquin Asparagus Festival San Joaquin County Fairgrounds Stockton, CA

Opening Day on the Delta San Joaquin Yacht Club Bethel Island, CA

Delta Loop Fest Iselton, CA

Riverview Cruise In Marina West Yacht Club Iselton, CA

Cajun & Blues Festival E2 Family Winery Lodi, CA

Annual Barron Hilton Fireworks Mandeville Island, CA

Courtland Pear Fair Courtland, CA

50's Bash Bethel Ialand, CA

Rio Vista Bass Derby & Festival Rio Vista, CA

Chili Cookoff Oxbow Yacht Club/Marina West Yacht Club Iselton, CA

Delta Reflections Lighted Boat Parade Stockton, CA

"Delta Gold" these days refers to boutique red wines produced by 10 family-operated vineyards around Clarksburg and Lodi. The Old Sugar Mill, once a real sugar mill facility on the Sacramento River, now houses several restaurants where you can sample and buy all the local wines.

During Prohibition, whiskey was golden. In 1927, some successful mobsters built the Ryde Hotel in Art Deco style, complete with a bordello, barber shop, and secret tunnels out to the river. Celebrity photos line the walls, and the gardens serve as a wedding venue with a small riverboat landing. You can still check out the bootleggers' tunnels.

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Mount Diablo rises northwest of the Delta, a handy landmark on the water. (Photo: Pat Rains)

The waters of the Sacramento River are becoming more valuable than gold or booze. Water districts of Los Angeles have been lobbying the state to let them buy water, drain it out through huge tunnels, and ship it 400 miles south. At the same time, farmers and ranchers around Fresno and Bakersfield are asking for their water share to be preserved. You'll see signs reading "Save the Delta" and "No Water, No Food" along major highways.

California Delta Boat Rentals

Delta Watercraft Bethel Island, CA (925) 684-2620

H2O Craft Rentals Tracy, CA (800) 979-RENT(7368)

Invert Sports Bethel Island, CA (888) 205-7119

Kokopelli Kayaks Isleton, CA (707) 365-3865 (925) 788-2103

Yachts for Charter

Opportunity Cruises Stockton, CA (916) 600-3815

Sacramento Historic River Cruises Sacramento, CA (888) 467-6256

Local Knowledge

"I'm all for leaving the Delta water in the Delta," said Nikki Seward, owner of Snug Harbor Resort and Marina on Steamboat Slough. Seward, a history buff, donated her family's collection of antique charts, maps, books, and documents of the Delta's colorful origins to the fledgling museum in Walnut Grove. "I'm more worried about the darned invaders," she said. Indeed. Two invasive plant species (water hyacinth and Brazilian waterweed) threaten the Delta with their explosive growth. Water hyacinth floats in thick mats that can foul props, rudders, or impellors and can suffocate fish habitats. The California State Parks Department of Boating and Waterways (Cal DBW) now sprays herbicides directly on the weeds in small sections of waterway. Spraying times and locations are posted on Local Notice to Mariners from the U.S. Coast Guard, or visit the Cal DBW website .

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Yacht clubs have formal Opening Days, even though boating is a year round passion in the Delta. (Photo: Pat Rains)

For real local knowledge, just ask a friendly local: When I asked a fisherman at Wimpy's Marina, on the Mokelumne, for directions to the wildlife refuge at Stone Lakes, which I knew was about 10 miles north, he replied, "You wanna see sandhill cranes? Just take your next left." Sure enough, on nearby Staten Island we were surrounded by 5,000 sandhill cranes — all honking and strutting and ignoring my presence. Clouds of these giant birds were circling overhead, yet we were miles from the nearest official refuge. Local knowledge. Thanks to farmers who voluntarily open their levees and flood their fallow fields in winter, huge flocks of sandhills from the Arctic now stop here to rest, then stay all winter to feed and breed. The best time to see them is November through March.

Yes, boaters can easily spend two weeks exploring the California Delta — different parts at different seasons, year after year, generation after generation.

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An American Cruise Line voyage that was supposed to start and end in San Francisco will now be departing from Sacramento instead.

The cruise is supposed to travel the Delta and always was meant to include stops in Napa, Stockton the Bay Area and Sacramento, but Old Sacramento Waterfront District Manager Chelsea Evans said that operational changes have impacted the route.

Evans said that the cruise ship, which has been docked in Sacramento this week, will depart on Saturday morning.

Previous coverage below | New cruise with stops at Bay Area, Stockton and Sacramento will you cost at least $6,000

"The cruise will be here Wednesday evenings through Saturday mornings moving forward for the next four weeks as a starting series, and we're hoping to expand it into a longer series in the next year," Evans said.

Evans said that Old Sacramento is a good area for people on the cruise looking to visit places with historical significance.

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