FerryCast
Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Saturday · shoulder

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% 09:01 5 12:55 expect to wait 20% — 5 15:40 room most days 80% — 5 18:00 room most days 100% — 5 20:05 room most days 100% — 5 22:00last boat 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 Saturday · shoulder · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC ⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Gale warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · October · 10 · Friday · 09 · 13 · 15 · 202610091315 · Friday October 09, 2026 at 13:15 UTC · 06 · 202610090615 · Friday October 09, 2026 at 06:15 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning Wind northwest 25 to 35 knots becoming northwest 20 to 30 late this morning then diminishing to northwest 15 to 20 late overnight. Wind diminishing to northwest 10 to 15 Saturday morning then increasing to northwest 15 to 20 Saturday afternoon. Wind diminishing to northwest 10 to 15 Saturday evening. Showers this morning. Showers overnight and Saturday morning. The same forecast covers this date — ECCC writes one for the day it is issued and the next. A newer one lands each cycle. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Today Tonight and Saturday. · issued 4 h ago
At Earls Cove · ECCC Clearing · high 15 °C Gibsons · Saturday · issued 5 h ago

FerryCast

Saturday · shoulder

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

06:30 in 20 h 4 min

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; then widened to similar day types (saturday, sunday_holiday).

Tags for this date: long_weekend

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-10-04 06:30 made it no empty
2026-10-03 06:30 made it no empty
2026-09-30 06:30 made it no empty
2026-09-27 06:30 made it no empty
2026-09-26 06:30 made it no empty

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 25–35 kt Clearing Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Gale warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · October · 10 · Friday · 09 · 13 · 15 · 202610091315 · Friday October 09, 2026 at 13:15 UTC · 06 · 202610090615 · Friday October 09, 2026 at 06:15 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning

Wind NW 25–35 kt
Visibility Showers this morning. Showers overnight and Saturday morning.

Wind northwest 25 to 35 knots becoming northwest 20 to 30 late this morning then diminishing to northwest 15 to 20 late overnight. Wind diminishing to northwest 10 to 15 Saturday morning then increasing to northwest 15 to 20 Saturday afternoon. Wind diminishing to northwest 10 to 15 Saturday evening.

Issued 4 h ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Today Tonight and Saturday.

At Earls Cove

Weather Clearing
High 15 °C

Clearing in the morning. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 near noon. High 15. UV index 3 or moderate.

Issued 5 h ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gibsons · Saturday

From the line

This sailing hasn't gone yet. Once it has, you can add when you joined the line, when it left and whether you got on — deck space and the camera can tell whether the vessel filled, but only a person in the queue knows who made it.

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