Women captains chart new course in river cruise sector
Andrea Mickelson would have said “absolutely not” to the idea of becoming a river cruise ship captain if you had asked her during her five-year run as a mate.
She’s now been a captain for 17 years.
Mickelson, who lives in Yacolt, Wash., will helm the American Harmony on the Columbia River for American Cruise Lines this year, a rarity in the male-dominated cruise industry, which sees few women steering ships.
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