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Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Sunday / holiday · 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 Sunday / holiday · peak summer · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC Wind northwest 5 to 15 knots becoming light after midnight except southwest 15 near Qualicum Beach. Wind becoming southeast 5 to 15 Monday morning. Showers overnight and Monday. No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 21 days forecast for light winds since 2026-08-13. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Monday. · issued 33 days ago · cancellation counts are FerryCast's own
At Earls Cove · ECCC Chance of showers · low 13 °C Gibsons · Tonight · issued 33 days ago

FerryCast

Sunday / holiday · 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.

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.

Tags for this date: long_weekend

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-10-04 18:00 made it no empty
2026-09-30 18:00 made it no empty
2026-09-27 18:00 made it no heavy
2026-09-20 18:00 made it no heavy
2026-09-13 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.

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NW 5–15 kt No cancellations in 21 days of light winds

Forecast

On the water

Wind NW 5–15 kt
Visibility Showers overnight and Monday.

Wind northwest 5 to 15 knots becoming light after midnight except southwest 15 near Qualicum Beach. Wind becoming southeast 5 to 15 Monday morning.

What it means for sailings

No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 21 days forecast for light winds since 2026-08-13.

Issued 33 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Monday. · cancellation history is FerryCast's own

At Earls Cove

Weather Chance of showers
Low 13 °C
Chance of precipitation 30%

Partly cloudy. Becoming cloudy after midnight with 30 percent chance of showers overnight. Fog patches developing overnight. Wind northwest 20 km/h becoming light near midnight. Low 13.

Issued 33 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gibsons · Tonight

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