FerryCast
Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Friday · peak summer

8 sailings

Every departure, what it usually does, and the hour you would have had to arrive.

Easiest sailings before 10:35, after 12:55
Hardest stretch 10:35–12:55
06:30 room most days 80% — 5 08:20 room most days 80% — 5 10:35 expect to wait 40% 09:31 5 12:55 expect to wait 40% — 5 15:40 room most days 80% — 5 18:00 room most days 80% — 5 20:05 room most days 80% — 5 22:00 room most days 100% — 5
had room filled up waited one waited two+ *no exact match, so the search was widened — open a sailing to see how Friday · peak summer · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC ⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Saturday · 15 · 04 · 30 · 202608150430 · Saturday August 15, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Friday · 14 · 21 · 202608142130 · Friday August 14, 2026 at 21:30 PDT Wind variable 5 to 15 knots except variable 25 near thunderstorms. Wind becoming light late this evening then becoming southeast 5 to 15 Saturday morning. Wind becoming light late Saturday afternoon then becoming northwest 5 to 15 Saturday evening except southeast 10 over southern sections. Scattered showers with a risk of thunderstorms. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Saturday. · issued 57 days ago
At Earls Cove · ECCC Chance of showers · low 15 °C Gibsons · Tonight · issued 57 days ago

FerryCast

Friday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

20:05 departed

5 comparable sailings

20% ran out of room
4had space
1filled

Of the 1 that filled: 1 provably left vehicles behind. The split is broken down under “How the 5 went.”

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 4 · 80%
  • Ran out of room 1 · 20%
  • Left vehicles behind 1 camera · line
  • Cancelled 0 · 0%

From terminal camera frames, which count vehicles waiting outside the terminal.

Not enough exact matches, so the search was widened to all seasons.

38 sailing(s) had no usable record and are excluded.

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-09-25 20:05 made it no empty
2026-09-18 20:05 made it no empty
2026-09-11 20:05 made it no heavy
2026-08-28 20:05 filled up yes heavy
2026-08-21 20:05 made it no heavy

The outcome is about the vessel — whether it ran out of room, which the board can see and no camera can. “Left behind” is about the approach road, which only a camera residual or somebody in the line can see; “no one has said” means neither did, which is not the same as no. Peak is how full the compound got; older sailings show a vehicle count, and a “+” there means the queue ran past the edge of the camera frame.

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SE 5–15 kt Chance of showers Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Saturday · 15 · 04 · 30 · 202608150430 · Saturday August 15, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Friday · 14 · 21 · 202608142130 · Friday August 14, 2026 at 21:30 PDT

Wind SE 5–15 kt
Visibility Scattered showers with a risk of thunderstorms.

Wind variable 5 to 15 knots except variable 25 near thunderstorms. Wind becoming light late this evening then becoming southeast 5 to 15 Saturday morning. Wind becoming light late Saturday afternoon then becoming northwest 5 to 15 Saturday evening except southeast 10 over southern sections.

Issued 57 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Saturday.

At Earls Cove

Weather Chance of showers
Low 15 °C
Chance of precipitation 30%

Partly cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers this evening. 30 percent chance of showers near the mountains late this evening and overnight. Risk of a thunderstorm this evening and overnight. Local smoke. Low 15.

Issued 57 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gibsons · Tonight

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