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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 07:25
Hardest stretch 09:25–14:30
05:35 room most days 80% 03:36 5 07:25 toss-up 60% 05:53 5 09:25 expect to wait 20% 07:38 5 11:45 expect to wait 20% 11:02 5 14:30 expect to wait 40% 13:59 5 16:55 room most days 80% 14:56 5 19:05 room most days 80% — 5 21:00 toss-up 60% — 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 · 29 · 04 · 30 · 202608290430 · Saturday August 29, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Friday · 28 · 21 · 202608282130 · Friday August 28, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo Wind northwest 10 to 20 knots tonight. Wind northwest 5 to 15 Saturday. Showers this evening with a risk of thunderstorms. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Saturday. · issued 43 days ago
At Saltery Bay · ECCC A few showers or thunderstorms · low 10 °C Powell River · Tonight · issued 43 days ago

FerryCast

Friday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

14:30

Actual departure

14:38

8 min late

5 comparable sailings

60% ran out of room
2had space
3filled

Of the 3 that filled: 3 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 3 of those.

Arrive before

13:59 31 min before departure — arrivals by then typically still got on these sailings

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 2 · 40%
  • Ran out of room 3 · 60%
  • Left vehicles behind 3 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 14:30 made it no one has said —
2026-09-25 14:30 made it no one has said overflowing
2026-09-18 14:30 filled up yes overflowing
2026-09-11 14:30 filled up yes heavy
2026-08-21 14:30 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 10–20 kt A few showers or thunderstorms Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Saturday · 29 · 04 · 30 · 202608290430 · Saturday August 29, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Friday · 28 · 21 · 202608282130 · Friday August 28, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo

Wind NW 10–20 kt
Visibility Showers this evening with a risk of thunderstorms.

Wind northwest 10 to 20 knots tonight. Wind northwest 5 to 15 Saturday.

Issued 43 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Saturday.

At Saltery Bay

Weather A few showers or thunderstorms
Low 10 °C

A few showers or thunderstorms ending late this evening then mainly cloudy. Risk of a severe thunderstorm early this evening. Wind southeast 20 km/h becoming light early this evening. Wind becoming northwest 30 this evening. Low 10.

Issued 43 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Powell River · Tonight

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