FerryCast
Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Weekday · peak summer

8 sailings

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

Easiest sailings before 09:25
Hardest stretch 09:25–14:30
05:35 room most days 80% — 5 07:25 room most days 100% — 5 09:25 expect to wait 0% 08:13 5 11:45 expect to wait 0% 11:01 5 14:30 expect to wait 20% 13:12 5 16:55 toss-up 60% 15:32 5 19:05 expect to wait 40% — 5 21:00 expect to wait 40% 20:12 5
had room filled up waited one waited two+ Weekday · peak summer · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC Wind northwest 5 to 10 knots becoming southeast 5 to 15 late this evening except northwest 5 to 15 over northern sections late this evening and overnight. Wind becoming southeast 10 to 15 early Friday morning then diminishing to light early Friday afternoon. Wind becoming northwest 5 to 15 Friday evening. Scattered showers overnight and Friday with a risk of thunderstorms. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Friday. · issued 58 days ago
At Saltery Bay · ECCC Partly cloudy · low 15 °C Powell River · Tonight · issued 58 days ago

FerryCast

Weekday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

11:45

Actual departure

12:16

31 min late

5 comparable sailings

100% ran out of room
5filled

Of the 5 that filled: 4 provably left vehicles behind and for 1 nobody has said either way. The split is broken down under “How the 5 went.”

The board reported on 5 of the 5; camera frames or line reports sharpened 4 of those.

Arrive before

11:01 44 min before departure — arrivals by then typically still got on these sailings

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 0 · 0%
  • Ran out of room 5 · 100%
  • Left vehicles behind 4 camera · line
  • No one has said 1 board only
  • Cancelled 0 · 0%

“No one has said” means the vessel was seen to run out of room and nobody has reported whether that cost anyone their crossing. One report from that line settles it.

More than one kind of evidence — camera frames, the board, or first-hand reports.

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-09-03 11:45 filled up yes heavy
2026-09-02 11:45 filled up yes overflowing
2026-09-01 11:45 filled up yes overflowing
2026-08-31 11:45 filled up no one has said heavy
2026-08-27 11:45 filled up yes overflowing

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 5–10 kt Partly cloudy

Forecast

On the water

Wind NW 5–10 kt
Visibility Scattered showers overnight and Friday with a risk of thunderstorms.

Wind northwest 5 to 10 knots becoming southeast 5 to 15 late this evening except northwest 5 to 15 over northern sections late this evening and overnight. Wind becoming southeast 10 to 15 early Friday morning then diminishing to light early Friday afternoon. Wind becoming northwest 5 to 15 Friday evening.

Issued 58 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Friday.

At Saltery Bay

Weather Partly cloudy
Low 15 °C

Partly cloudy. Risk of a thunderstorm late this evening and overnight. Hazy. Low 15.

Issued 58 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Powell River · Tonight

From the line

No one has reported this sailing.

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