FerryCast
Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Saturday · 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 100% — 5 07:25 room most days 80% — 5 09:25 expect to wait 40% 08:08 5 11:45 expect to wait 20% 11:18 5 14:30 expect to wait 20% 13:44 5 16:55 room most days 80% 16:35 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 Saturday · peak summer · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC Wind northwest 5 to 15 knots becoming light near midnight except southeast 5 to 15 over southern sections Sunday. Showers Sunday. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Sunday. · issued 42 days ago
At Saltery Bay · ECCC Mainly cloudy · low 13 °C Powell River · Tonight · issued 42 days ago

FerryCast

Saturday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

21:00 departed

5 comparable sailings

20% ran out of room
4had space
1filled

Of the 1 that filled: 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.

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 4 · 80%
  • Ran out of room 1 · 20%
  • 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.

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

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-10-03 21:00 made it no light
2026-09-26 21:00 made it no moderate
2026-09-19 21:00 made it no empty
2026-09-12 21:00 made it no empty
2026-08-22 21:00 filled up no 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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NW 5–15 kt Mainly cloudy

Forecast

On the water

Wind NW 5–15 kt
Visibility Showers Sunday.

Wind northwest 5 to 15 knots becoming light near midnight except southeast 5 to 15 over southern sections Sunday.

Issued 42 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Sunday.

At Saltery Bay

Weather Mainly cloudy
Low 13 °C

Partly cloudy. Becoming cloudy this evening. Wind northwest 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming light this evening. Low 13.

Issued 42 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Powell River · Tonight

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