FerryCast
Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Sunday / holiday · 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 100% — 5 09:25 expect to wait 20% 08:10 5 11:45 expect to wait 20% 10:29 5 14:30 expect to wait 0% 14:00 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 Sunday / holiday · peak summer · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC Wind light becoming northwest 5 to 15 knots early Monday afternoon. Showers ending Monday morning. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Monday. · issued 41 days ago
At Saltery Bay · ECCC Chance of showers · low 13 °C Powell River · Tonight · issued 41 days ago

FerryCast

Sunday / holiday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

09:25

Actual departure

09:30

5 min late

5 comparable sailings

80% ran out of room
1had space
4filled

Of the 4 that filled: 3 provably left vehicles behind and for 1 nobody has said either way. 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

08:10 75 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 3 camera · line
  • No one has said 1 board only
  • Cancelled 0 · 0%

“No one has said” means the vessel was seen to run out of room and nobody has reported whether that cost anyone their crossing. One report from that line settles it.

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
2026-10-04 09:25 made it no moderate
2026-09-27 09:25 filled up yes overflowing
2026-09-20 09:25 filled up yes heavy
2026-09-13 09:25 filled up yes overflowing
2026-08-23 09:25 filled up no one has said 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 Chance of showers

Forecast

On the water

Wind NW 5–15 kt
Visibility Showers ending Monday morning.

Wind light becoming northwest 5 to 15 knots early Monday afternoon.

Issued 41 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Monday.

At Saltery Bay

Weather Chance of showers
Low 13 °C
Chance of precipitation 30%

Cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers this evening and after midnight. Wind southeast 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low 13.

Issued 41 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Powell River · Tonight

From the line

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