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Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Friday · peak summer

8 sailings

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

Easiest sailings before 09:25, after 14:30
Hardest stretch 09:25–14:30
05:35 room most days 80% 03:36 5 07:25 room most days 80% 05:53 5 09:25 expect to wait 20% 09:15 5 11:45 expect to wait 20% 11:23 5 14:30 expect to wait 40% 13:50 5 16:55 room most days 80% — 5 19:05 room most days 80% — 5 21:00 room most days 80% — 5
had room filled up waited one waited two+ *no exact match, so the search was widened — open a sailing to see how Friday · peak summer · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC ⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Saturday · 15 · 04 · 30 · 202608150430 · Saturday August 15, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Friday · 14 · 21 · 202608142130 · Friday August 14, 2026 at 21:30 PDT Wind variable 5 to 15 knots except variable 25 near thunderstorms. Wind becoming light late this evening then becoming southeast 5 to 15 Saturday morning. Wind becoming light late Saturday afternoon then becoming northwest 5 to 15 Saturday evening except southeast 10 over southern sections. Scattered showers with a risk of thunderstorms. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Saturday. · issued 57 days ago
At Saltery Bay · ECCC Chance of showers · low 15 °C Powell River · Tonight · issued 57 days ago

FerryCast

Friday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

09:25

Actual departure

09:47

22 min late

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.”

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

Arrive before

09:15 10 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%

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

Not enough exact matches, so the search was widened to all seasons.

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-10-02 09:25 made it no one has said —
2026-09-25 09:25 filled up yes heavy
2026-09-18 09:25 filled up yes overflowing
2026-09-11 09:25 filled up yes heavy
2026-08-28 09:25 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 Chance of showers Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Saturday · 15 · 04 · 30 · 202608150430 · Saturday August 15, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Friday · 14 · 21 · 202608142130 · Friday August 14, 2026 at 21:30 PDT

Wind SE 5–15 kt
Visibility Scattered showers with a risk of thunderstorms.

Wind variable 5 to 15 knots except variable 25 near thunderstorms. Wind becoming light late this evening then becoming southeast 5 to 15 Saturday morning. Wind becoming light late Saturday afternoon then becoming northwest 5 to 15 Saturday evening except southeast 10 over southern sections.

Issued 57 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Saturday.

At Saltery Bay

Weather Chance of showers
Low 15 °C
Chance of precipitation 30%

Partly cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers this evening. 30 percent chance of showers near the mountains late this evening and overnight. Risk of a thunderstorm this evening and overnight. Local smoke. Low 15.

Issued 57 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Powell River · Tonight

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