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 80% — 5 09:25 expect to wait 0% 07:49 5 11:45 expect to wait 0% 11:01 5 14:30 expect to wait 0% 13:57 5 16:55 toss-up 60% 16:04 5 19:05 expect to wait 40% — 5 21:00 toss-up 60% 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 · Friday · 28 · 04 · 30 · 202608280430 · Friday August 28, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Thursday · 27 · 21 · 202608272130 · Thursday August 27, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo Wind southeast 10 to 15 knots diminishing to light near midnight then increasing to southeast 5 to 15 late Friday morning. Wind increasing to northwest 20 to 30 late Friday afternoon then diminishing to northwest 10 to 20 Friday evening. Risk of thunderstorms late this evening. Risk of thunderstorms Friday afternoon and evening. Showers overnight and Friday. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Friday. · issued 44 days ago
At Saltery Bay · ECCC Chance of showers · low 13 °C Powell River · Tonight · issued 44 days ago

FerryCast

Weekday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

21:00

Actual departure

21:43

43 min late

5 comparable sailings

40% ran out of room
3had space
2filled

Of the 2 that filled: 1 provably left vehicles behind and 1 filled and still took everyone — the tightest kind of success. The split is broken down under “How the 5 went.”

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

Arrive before

20:12 48 min before departure — arrivals by then typically still got on these sailings

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 3 · 60%
  • Ran out of room 2 · 40%
  • Left vehicles behind 1 camera · line
  • Took everyone anyway 1 board + line
  • Cancelled 0 · 0%

“Took everyone anyway” is the board’s capacity notice resolved by someone who was in the line — the margin nobody can otherwise see.

From terminal camera frames, which count vehicles waiting outside the terminal.

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-09-03 21:00 made it no light
2026-09-02 21:00 filled up yes overflowing
2026-09-01 21:00 made it no moderate
2026-08-31 21:00 filled up no moderate
2026-08-26 21:00 made it no moderate

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 Chance of showers Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Friday · 28 · 04 · 30 · 202608280430 · Friday August 28, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Thursday · 27 · 21 · 202608272130 · Thursday August 27, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo

Wind SE 10–15 kt
Visibility Risk of thunderstorms late this evening. Risk of thunderstorms Friday afternoon and evening. Showers overnight and Friday.

Wind southeast 10 to 15 knots diminishing to light near midnight then increasing to southeast 5 to 15 late Friday morning. Wind increasing to northwest 20 to 30 late Friday afternoon then diminishing to northwest 10 to 20 Friday evening.

Issued 44 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Friday.

At Saltery Bay

Weather Chance of showers
Low 13 °C
Chance of precipitation 60%

Mainly cloudy. 60 percent chance of showers this evening. Risk of a thunderstorm early this evening. Wind southeast 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this evening. Low 13.

Issued 44 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Powell River · Tonight

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