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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 variable 5 to 15 knots except southeast 10 to 20 over southern sections overnight and Wednesday morning. Wind becoming light Wednesday afternoon. Showers overnight and Wednesday. No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 39 days forecast for strong winds since 2026-08-12. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Wednesday. · issued 17 days ago · cancellation counts are FerryCast's own
At Earls Cove · ECCC Chance of showers · low 12 °C Gibsons · Tonight · issued 17 days ago

FerryCast

Weekday · shoulder

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

12:55 departed

5 comparable sailings

60% ran out of room
2had space
3filled

Of the 3 that filled: 3 provably left vehicles behind. The split is broken down under “How the 5 went.”

Arrive before

12:55 0 min before departure — arrivals by then typically still got on these sailings

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 2 · 40%
  • Ran out of room 3 · 60%
  • Left vehicles behind 3 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 12:55 made it no heavy
2026-10-07 12:55 filled up yes heavy
2026-10-06 12:55 made it no heavy
2026-10-05 12:55 filled up yes heavy
2026-09-29 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 39 days of strong winds

Forecast

On the water

Wind SE 5–15 kt
Visibility Showers overnight and Wednesday.

Wind variable 5 to 15 knots except southeast 10 to 20 over southern sections overnight and Wednesday morning. Wind becoming light Wednesday afternoon.

What it means for sailings

No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 39 days forecast for strong winds since 2026-08-12.

Issued 17 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Wednesday. · cancellation history is FerryCast's own

At Earls Cove

Weather Chance of showers
Low 12 °C
Chance of precipitation 30%

Partly cloudy. Becoming cloudy this evening with 30 percent chance of showers late this evening and after midnight. A few showers beginning after midnight. Wind southeast 20 km/h. Low 12.

Issued 17 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gibsons · Tonight

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