FerryCast
Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Weekday · 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% 09:16 5 12:55 expect to wait 40% 12:55 5 15:40 room most days 80% — 5 18:00 room most days 80% 17:01 5 20:05 room most days 80% — 5 22:00 room most days 80% — 5
had room filled up waited one waited two+ *no exact match, so the search was widened — open a sailing to see how Weekday · peak summer · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC ⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Wednesday · 26 · 04 · 30 · 202608260430 · Wednesday August 26, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Tuesday · 25 · 21 · 202608252130 · Tuesday August 25, 2026 at 21:30 PDT Wind southeast 10 to 20 knots except southwest 30 near Qualicum Beach. Wind becoming southeast 10 to 15 early Wednesday morning then increasing to southeast 15 to 25 early Wednesday afternoon except southwest 20 near Qualicum Beach Wednesday late in the day. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Wednesday. · issued 46 days ago
At Earls Cove · ECCC Chance of showers · low 17 °C Gibsons · Tonight · issued 46 days ago

FerryCast

Weekday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

18:00 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.”

Arrive before

17:01 59 min before departure — arrivals by then typically still got on these sailings

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.

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-09-03 18:00 made it no heavy
2026-09-02 18:00 filled up yes heavy
2026-08-26 18:00 made it no empty
2026-08-19 18:00 made it no heavy
2026-08-18 18:00 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.

When did the queue build?

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SE 10–20 kt Chance of showers Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Wednesday · 26 · 04 · 30 · 202608260430 · Wednesday August 26, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Tuesday · 25 · 21 · 202608252130 · Tuesday August 25, 2026 at 21:30 PDT

Wind SE 10–20 kt

Wind southeast 10 to 20 knots except southwest 30 near Qualicum Beach. Wind becoming southeast 10 to 15 early Wednesday morning then increasing to southeast 15 to 25 early Wednesday afternoon except southwest 20 near Qualicum Beach Wednesday late in the day.

Issued 46 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Wednesday.

At Earls Cove

Weather Chance of showers
Low 17 °C
Chance of precipitation 30%

Partly cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers this evening and after midnight with risk of a thunderstorm. Hazy. Low 17.

Issued 46 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gibsons · Tonight

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