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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 0% 09:16 5 12:55 expect to wait 20% — 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 southeast 5 to 15 knots becoming northwest 5 to 15 late this evening then increasing to northwest 15 to 20 Tuesday evening. No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 26 days forecast for strong winds since 2026-08-12. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Tuesday. · issued 32 days ago · cancellation counts are FerryCast's own
At Earls Cove · ECCC Chance of showers · low 12 °C Gibsons · Tonight · issued 32 days ago

FerryCast

Sunday / holiday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

12:55 departed

5 comparable sailings

80% ran out of room
1had space
4filled

Of the 4 that filled: 4 provably left vehicles behind. The split is broken down under “How the 5 went.”

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 1 · 20%
  • Ran out of room 4 · 80%
  • Left vehicles behind 4 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.

Tags for this date: holiday:Labour Day, long_weekend

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-10-04 12:55 made it no heavy
2026-09-27 12:55 filled up yes heavy
2026-09-20 12:55 filled up yes heavy
2026-09-13 12:55 filled up yes heavy
2026-09-06 12:55 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?

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SE 5–15 kt No cancellations in 26 days of strong winds

Forecast

On the water

Wind SE 5–15 kt

Wind southeast 5 to 15 knots becoming northwest 5 to 15 late this evening then increasing to northwest 15 to 20 Tuesday evening.

What it means for sailings

No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 26 days forecast for strong winds since 2026-08-12.

Issued 32 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Tuesday. · cancellation history is FerryCast's own

At Earls Cove

Weather Chance of showers
Low 12 °C
Chance of precipitation 40%

Partly cloudy. 40 percent chance of showers early this evening and overnight. Fog patches developing overnight. Wind light except southeast 30 km/h near the Strait of Georgia early this evening. Low 12.

Issued 32 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gibsons · Tonight

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