Coastal Seatrucking · Campbell River, BC · Since 1986

Working this coast since 1986.

Begin

40 years on this coast.

Freight to places with no dock.

Landing craft · Inlet Raider · Campbell River

The run

Out of Campbell River.

Inlets, narrows and open water.

I / The load

What we've carried.

We carry all freight. Machines, fuel, lumber, trucks.

Aircraft. Helicopters. Excavators and pipe.

And research submersibles.

Who we work for

Who we work for.

  1. An orange grapple yarder on a gravel landing, seen over the lowered bow ramp01 Logging campsMachines, fuel and lumber, landed at camps with no dock.Logging
  2. The bow ramp down on a muddy bank, a telehandler working on the site behind02 Construction & remote sitesExcavators, trucks and pipe, onto sites with no dock.Construction
  3. Blue totes on the deck as the boat comes in beside floats and buoys in an inlet03 AquacultureFreight to sites on the water.Aquaculture
  4. A white pickup on deck, running up a calm inlet between mountains04 Lodges & coastal communitiesFuel, trucks and lumber, to places with no dock.Lodges
  5. The open deck and bow ramp under cloud, islands and a long shoreline ahead05 Film & scienceResearch submersibles, carried on deck.Film & science
  6. A floatplane lifted over the deck in a harbour06 Floatplanes & helicoptersFloatplanes and helicopters, carried on deck.Aircraft

II / The landing

Where we land.

To places with no dock.

Up rivers almost nothing else can reach.

How a beach landing works

The boat

The Inlet Raider.

Inlet Raider · Landing craftHome port · Campbell River

98 ft landing craft· 14 ft bow ramp· 100 tons· Since 1986

The boat

The coast we run

The coast we run.

Up and down the coast from Campbell River: Seattle, through BC, to Alaska. All coast, every crevice, anywhere in between.

Chart of the coast, from Vancouver Island north to Alaska The real coastline, with Campbell River marked as home port and the home waters around it drawn heavier. A run drawn along the water south past Victoria and carrying on off the chart toward Seattle, and a run north along the water toward Alaska. We run the whole coast from Seattle to Alaska; only the water routes that can be drawn are shown. Campbell RiverHome port Alaska British Columbia Pacific Ocean Home waters Victoria South to SeattleNorth to Alaska
Chart of the coast, from Vancouver Island north to Alaska The real coastline, north at the top, with Campbell River marked as home port. A run drawn along the water south past Victoria and carrying on off the chart toward Seattle, and a run north along the water toward Alaska. Campbell RiverHome port Alaska British
Columbia Vancouver
Island Pacific
Ocean Home waters Victoria North to AlaskaSouth to Seattle
Campbell River · 50°01.9′N 125°14.7′WCoastline · Natural Earth · Lines follow the water, not a schedule
Home waters around Campbell River Detail of the coast around Campbell River: Johnstone Strait, the Discovery Islands, Bute Inlet, Knight Inlet, Kingcome Inlet and the Broughton Archipelago, with runs drawn along the water, and the run south to Victoria leaving the bottom of the chart. Campbell RiverHome port Johnstone Strait Discovery Islands Vancouver Island Bute
Inlet Knight
Inlet Kingcome
Inlet Broughton
Archipelago Down the coast ↓ ← To Alaska

Home waters

Around Campbell River.

Johnstone Strait, the Discovery Islands, Bute, Knight and Kingcome Inlets, and the Broughton Archipelago: the water right around home port.

If your spot isn't on the chart, ask.

Tell us about the load

Heritage

Since 1986.

40 years on this coast.

  1. Bill's first boat, the Sealander 59, a 27-foot fibreglass landing craft lettered Coastal Sea Trucking, tied up at the shore beside a larger hull

    1986

    The first boat: the Sealander 59, a 27-ft fibreglass landing craft.

    From Bill's own photos

  2. A maroon pickup truck parked on the Inlet Raider’s timber deck, seen from above

    2011

    A pickup on the deck.

  3. The Inlet Raider on a grey day, black hull with her name and shield, crane raised

    2014

    Crane up, coming in to the beach.

  4. An orange grapple yarder on a gravel beach, lined up with the lowered bow ramp

    2016

    Picking up a grapple yarder off the beach.

  5. Aerial of the Inlet Raider underway with a long curving wake, wooded islands behind

    2018

    Underway, seen from a drone.

  6. The Inlet Raider with a machine on deck, passing a rock breakwater and pilings

    2025

    A machine on deck, arriving at French Creek.

Questions

Questions people ask.

Can you deliver somewhere with no dock?

Yes. That is what the boat is for. The Inlet Raider is a landing craft with a 14 ft bow ramp. She comes in to the beach, the ramp goes down, and the load comes off.

Is the Inlet Raider a barge?

No. She is a landing craft: a boat with her own engines and a ramp in the bow. People looking for a barge service usually need what she does: machines, trucks and freight moved by water to an island or a shore with no dock. She comes in to the beach, the 14 ft ramp goes down, and the load drives off.

Do you do marine freight and marine transportation on the BC coast?

Yes. Moving freight by water is the whole business: machines, fuel, lumber, trucks and more, anywhere on the coast from Seattle through BC to Alaska, out of Campbell River since 1986.

Can you take an excavator up the coast?

Yes. We carry machines, excavators included. Tell us the make and model, roughly what it weighs, and where it needs to go.

How do I get a price?

Tell us about the load: what it is, roughly how heavy, where it starts, where it's going and when. Or call Bill at 604-740-1599. Rates are not listed on the site; each run is priced once we know the load.

Do you run up rivers?

Yes. Up rivers almost nothing else can reach. Call Bill and name the river.

What areas do you cover?

We run the coast from Seattle, through BC, to Alaska: all coast, every crevice and anywhere in between. Juneau is about as far north as we go. Close to home that’s Johnstone Strait, the Discovery Islands (Quadra and Cortes among them), the Broughton Archipelago, and Bute, Knight and Kingcome Inlets on the mainland side. If your spot isn’t named here, ask.

How big is the boat?

The Inlet Raider is a 98 ft landing craft with a 14 ft bow ramp. Coastal Seatrucking has been running since 1986.

Coastal Seatrucking · Campbell River, BC · Since 1986

Call Bill.

604-740-1599
Tell us about the load