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Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Weekday · shoulder

8 sailings

Every departure, what it usually does, and the hour you would have had to arrive.

Easiest sailings before 10:35, after 18:00
Hardest stretch 10:35–12:55
06:30 room most days 80% — 5 08:20 room most days 100% — 5 10:35 expect to wait 20% 09:46 5 12:55 expect to wait 40% 12:55 5 15:40 room most days 100% — 5 18:00 toss-up 60% — 5 20:05 room most days 100% — 5 22:00 room most days 100% — 5
had room filled up waited one waited two+ Weekday · shoulder · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC Wind northwest 15 to 20 knots diminishing to northwest 10 to 15 near midnight and to light late overnight. Wind becoming southeast 5 to 15 Friday morning then becoming light Friday afternoon. Wind becoming northwest 10 to 15 Friday evening. No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 29 days forecast for strong winds since 2026-08-12. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Friday. · issued 29 days ago · cancellation counts are FerryCast's own
At Earls Cove · ECCC Partly cloudy · low 11 °C Gibsons · Tonight · issued 29 days ago

FerryCast

Weekday · shoulder

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

10:35 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.”

Arrive before

09:46 49 min before departure — arrivals by then typically still got on these sailings

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.

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-10-08 10:35 filled up yes heavy
2026-10-07 10:35 filled up yes heavy
2026-10-06 10:35 made it no heavy
2026-09-29 10:35 filled up yes heavy
2026-09-28 10:35 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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NW 15–20 kt No cancellations in 29 days of strong winds

Forecast

On the water

Wind NW 15–20 kt

Wind northwest 15 to 20 knots diminishing to northwest 10 to 15 near midnight and to light late overnight. Wind becoming southeast 5 to 15 Friday morning then becoming light Friday afternoon. Wind becoming northwest 10 to 15 Friday evening.

What it means for sailings

No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 29 days forecast for strong winds since 2026-08-12.

Issued 29 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Friday. · cancellation history is FerryCast's own

At Earls Cove

Weather Partly cloudy
Low 11 °C

A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness before morning. Wind northwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this evening. Low 11.

Issued 29 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gibsons · Tonight

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