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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 15:40
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 0% 09:16 5 12:55 expect to wait 40% 12:55 5 15:40 toss-up 60% — 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 Weekday · peak summer · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC ⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · September · 09 · Thursday · 3 · 04 · 30 · 20260930430 · Thursday September 3, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Wednesday · 02 · 21 · 202609022130 · Wednesday September 02, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo Wind southeast 20 to 30 knots diminishing to southeast 10 to 20 early Thursday morning and to light Thursday afternoon. Showers or scattered thunderstorms ending near noon Thursday. Risk of waterspouts overnight and Thursday morning. Showers Thursday evening. No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 21 days forecast for strong winds since 2026-08-12. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Thursday. · issued 37 days ago · cancellation counts are FerryCast's own
At Earls Cove · ECCC Periods of rain · low 12 °C Gibsons · Tonight · issued 38 days ago

FerryCast

Weekday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

18:00 departed

5 comparable sailings

0% ran out of room
5had space

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.

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
2026-08-26 18:00 made it no empty
2026-08-25 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 20–30 kt No cancellations in 21 days of strong winds Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · September · 09 · Thursday · 3 · 04 · 30 · 20260930430 · Thursday September 3, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Wednesday · 02 · 21 · 202609022130 · Wednesday September 02, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo

Wind SE 20–30 kt
Visibility Showers or scattered thunderstorms ending near noon Thursday. Risk of waterspouts overnight and Thursday morning. Showers Thursday evening.

Wind southeast 20 to 30 knots diminishing to southeast 10 to 20 early Thursday morning and to light Thursday afternoon.

What it means for sailings

No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 21 days forecast for strong winds since 2026-08-12.

Issued 37 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Thursday. · cancellation history is FerryCast's own

At Earls Cove

Weather Periods of rain
Low 12 °C

Periods of rain ending near midnight then mainly cloudy. Wind southeast 30 km/h gusting to 50 except gusting to 70 near the Strait of Georgia early this evening. Wind becoming light after midnight. Low 12.

Issued 38 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gibsons · Tonight

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