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 ⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Wednesday · 26 · 04 · 30 · 202608260430 · Wednesday August 26, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Tuesday · 25 · 21 · 202608252130 · Tuesday August 25, 2026 at 21:30 PDT Wind southeast 10 to 20 knots except southwest 30 near Qualicum Beach. Wind becoming southeast 10 to 15 early Wednesday morning then increasing to southeast 15 to 25 early Wednesday afternoon except southwest 20 near Qualicum Beach Wednesday late in the day. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Wednesday. · issued 46 days ago
At Saltery Bay · ECCC Chance of showers · low 17 °C Powell River · Tonight · issued 46 days ago

FerryCast

Weekday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

14:30

Actual departure

14:29

1 min early

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

13:12 78 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.

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-09-03 14:30 filled up yes overflowing
2026-09-02 14:30 filled up yes overflowing
2026-09-01 14:30 filled up yes overflowing
2026-08-31 14:30 filled up yes overflowing
2026-08-27 14:30 made it no one has said 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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SE 10–20 kt Chance of showers Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Wednesday · 26 · 04 · 30 · 202608260430 · Wednesday August 26, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Tuesday · 25 · 21 · 202608252130 · Tuesday August 25, 2026 at 21:30 PDT

Wind SE 10–20 kt

Wind southeast 10 to 20 knots except southwest 30 near Qualicum Beach. Wind becoming southeast 10 to 15 early Wednesday morning then increasing to southeast 15 to 25 early Wednesday afternoon except southwest 20 near Qualicum Beach Wednesday late in the day.

Issued 46 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Wednesday.

At Saltery Bay

Weather Chance of showers
Low 17 °C
Chance of precipitation 30%

Partly cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers this evening and after midnight with risk of a thunderstorm. Hazy. Low 17.

Issued 46 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Powell River · Tonight

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