FerryCast
Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Saturday · 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 100% — 5 08:20 room most days 100% — 5 10:35 expect to wait 20% 09:31 5 12:55 expect to wait 40% — 5 15:40 room most days 100% — 5 18:00 room most days 100% — 5 20:05 room most days 100% — 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 Saturday · peak summer · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC ⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Sunday · 23 · 04 · 30 · 202608230430 · Sunday August 23, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Saturday · 22 · 21 · 202608222130 · Saturday August 22, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo Wind variable 5 to 15 knots except southwest 20 to 25 near Qualicum Beach overnight. Wind becoming northwest 5 to 15 late overnight then becoming variable 5 to 15 near noon Sunday. Showers ending near noon Sunday with a risk of thunderstorms. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Sunday. · issued 49 days ago
At Earls Cove · ECCC A few showers or thunderstorms · low 15 °C Gibsons · Tonight · issued 49 days ago

FerryCast

Saturday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

22:00 departed

5 comparable sailings

0% ran out of room
5had space

The board reported on 2 of the 5; camera frames or line reports sharpened 2 of those.

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 5 · 100%
  • Ran out of room 0 · 0%
  • 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; then widened to +/-60 min; then widened to include days outside a long weekend, which behave differently.

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-10-10 22:00 made it no empty
2026-10-03 22:00 made it no empty
2026-09-26 22:00 made it no empty
2026-09-19 22:00 made it no empty
2026-09-12 22:00 made it no empty

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.

When did the queue build?

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SW 5–15 kt A few showers or thunderstorms Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Sunday · 23 · 04 · 30 · 202608230430 · Sunday August 23, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Saturday · 22 · 21 · 202608222130 · Saturday August 22, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo

Wind SW 5–15 kt
Visibility Showers ending near noon Sunday with a risk of thunderstorms.

Wind variable 5 to 15 knots except southwest 20 to 25 near Qualicum Beach overnight. Wind becoming northwest 5 to 15 late overnight then becoming variable 5 to 15 near noon Sunday.

Issued 49 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Sunday.

At Earls Cove

Weather A few showers or thunderstorms
Low 15 °C

Showers with thunderstorms. Wind southeast 20 km/h becoming west 20 this evening. Low 15.

Issued 49 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gibsons · Tonight

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