FerryCast
Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
← →
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 12:55
06:30 room most days 80% — 5 08:20 room most days 80% — 5 10:35 toss-up 60% 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 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 Friday · peak summer · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC ⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Saturday · 29 · 04 · 30 · 202608290430 · Saturday August 29, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Friday · 28 · 21 · 202608282130 · Friday August 28, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo Wind northwest 10 to 20 knots tonight. Wind northwest 5 to 15 Saturday. Showers this evening with a risk of thunderstorms. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Saturday. · issued 43 days ago
At Earls Cove · ECCC Showers · low 10 °C Gibsons · Tonight · issued 43 days ago

FerryCast

Friday · 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.”

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; then widened to +/-60 min; then widened to include days outside a long weekend, which behave differently; then widened to similar day types (friday, weekday).

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-10-09 18:00 made it no empty
2026-10-08 18:00 made it no empty
2026-10-07 18:00 made it no empty
2026-10-06 18:00 made it no empty
2026-09-28 18:00 filled up yes 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?

Loading…

NW 10–20 kt Showers Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Saturday · 29 · 04 · 30 · 202608290430 · Saturday August 29, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Friday · 28 · 21 · 202608282130 · Friday August 28, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo

Wind NW 10–20 kt
Visibility Showers this evening with a risk of thunderstorms.

Wind northwest 10 to 20 knots tonight. Wind northwest 5 to 15 Saturday.

Issued 43 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Saturday.

At Earls Cove

Weather Showers
Low 10 °C

Mainly cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers early this evening. A few showers beginning early this evening and ending near midnight. Risk of a thunderstorm this evening. Fog patches developing overnight. Wind southeast 20 km/h becoming northwest 20 this evening. Low 10.

Issued 43 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gibsons · Tonight

From the line

No one has reported this sailing.

Add what happened
Did you get on?

Only the first answer is needed — add the times if you remember them. Nothing identifies you, and reports go straight into this sailing's record.

How it works