Hardwicke Island Via Sayward Post Office, Sayward, BC V0P 1R0
Phone: 250-282-3607 or Cell: 250-203-0073
Email Us At: Hardwicke Transportation

Hardwicke Transportation operates one vessel year round. A 37 foot Sealander landing craft, the Hardwicke Transporter.

The Hardwicke Transporter is designed to quickly transport small freight over short distances. It has been cruising the waters of Johnstone Strait and Discovery Passage since 1977. Our home port is Hardwicke Island located directly across Johnstone Strait from the Port of Kelsey Bay and the village of Sayward. Which is approximately 50 miles northwest of Campbell River.

Hardwicke Transportation offers its cargo and water taxi service to area residents, emergency services, the area's diverse industries including forestry, silvaculture, aquaculture and tourism. We also offer our water taxi service to fishermen and hunters seeking more remote locations.

"What one of our clients says"

Hi Eric, Thanks for the update on the Sealander. Great news that it is back in operation . The Sealander has always been our first choice for moving trucks in and out of Johnstone Straits.

R. Monchak, TimberWest.

Article: Western Mariner Magazine

Dec. 2008, Northern Vancouver Island Part II by Rob Morris (reprinted with permission)

The Bendickson logging family has been on Hardwicke Island, across Johnstone Strait from Kelsey Bay, since 1918. Eric Borgfjord's uncle, Bruce Bendickson, took delivery of the Hardwicke Transporter in 1977, the first of the 37-ft Sealander landing craft built by a company in North Vancouver. Around 1970 John Dunne developed the Sealander for Bennet Environmental which produced oil-spill containment equipment. Bennet was acquired by Versatile-Cornat then by Versatech Products of Burnaby which, we believe, still owns the Sealander design. Bendickson used the landing craft to transport trucks, machinery parts, and groceries from Kelsey Bay to the family logging camps plus goods to residents in the inlets and on the islands of the lower Johnstone Strait area. Bruce Bendickson died in a car accident in December 2007. Eric is gearing up to continue on with the twin 225-hp Volvo Penta D4-powered Hardwicke Transporter, putting it into commercial use transporting the same range of freight. In this photo, taken last March (March 2008), he's transporting a pair of Norwegian Fjord horses from Bendickson Harbour on Hardwicke to Kelsey Bay.