The Valdez Spirit was the catamarran that we went on the cruise today....it was a beautiful boat in it's 3rd year in service. It was a much more comfortable boat than our one out of Seward, of which we were very glad since this cruise was 9.5 hours. Boy did the time every fly by....they served a very good dinner around 1:00 and then soup around 5:30. Would highly recommend this Stan Stephens Cruise our coupon books only included the 6.5 hour trip but we upgraded and were very glad we did.