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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 light becoming southeast 10 to 15 knots late this evening then diminishing to light early Friday evening. Showers changing to drizzle and fog patches Friday evening. No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 43 days forecast for light winds since 2026-08-13. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Friday. · issued 7 days ago · cancellation counts are FerryCast's own
At Earls Cove · ECCC Chance of showers · low 10 °C Gibsons · Tonight · issued 8 days ago

FerryCast

Weekday · shoulder

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

06:30 departed

5 comparable sailings

20% ran out of room
4had space
1filled

Of the 1 that filled: 1 provably left vehicles behind. The split is broken down under “How the 5 went.”

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 4 · 80%
  • Ran out of room 1 · 20%
  • Left vehicles behind 1 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 06:30 made it no empty
2026-10-07 06:30 made it no empty
2026-10-06 06:30 made it no empty
2026-10-05 06:30 made it no empty
2026-09-29 06:30 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 10–15 kt No cancellations in 43 days of light winds

Forecast

On the water

Wind SE 10–15 kt
Visibility Showers changing to drizzle and fog patches Friday evening.

Wind light becoming southeast 10 to 15 knots late this evening then diminishing to light early Friday evening.

What it means for sailings

No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 43 days forecast for light winds since 2026-08-13.

Issued 7 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 Chance of showers
Low 10 °C
Chance of precipitation 60%

Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Low 10.

Issued 8 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gibsons · Tonight

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