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% 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 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 · Monday · 31 · 23 · 00 · 202608312300 · Monday August 31, 2026 at 23:00 UTC · 16 · 202608311600 · Monday August 31, 2026 at 16:00 PDT Wind northwest 5 to 15 knots becoming light early Tuesday morning then increasing to southeast 15 late Tuesday morning. Wind increasing to southeast 15 to 25 near noon Tuesday. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Tuesday. · issued 41 days ago
At Saltery Bay · ECCC Partly cloudy · low 12 °C Powell River · Tonight · issued 41 days ago

FerryCast

Weekday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

05:35

Actual departure

05:40

5 min late

5 comparable sailings

20% ran out of room
4had space
1filled

Of the 1 that filled: 1 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 5 of those.

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 4 · 80%
  • Ran out of room 1 · 20%
  • Left vehicles behind 1 camera · line
  • Cancelled 0 · 0%

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 05:35 filled up yes heavy
2026-09-01 05:35 made it no moderate
2026-08-27 05:35 made it no moderate
2026-08-26 05:35 made it no moderate
2026-08-25 05:35 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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NW 5–15 kt Partly cloudy Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · August · 08 · Monday · 31 · 23 · 00 · 202608312300 · Monday August 31, 2026 at 23:00 UTC · 16 · 202608311600 · Monday August 31, 2026 at 16:00 PDT

Wind NW 5–15 kt

Wind northwest 5 to 15 knots becoming light early Tuesday morning then increasing to southeast 15 late Tuesday morning. Wind increasing to southeast 15 to 25 near noon Tuesday.

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

At Saltery Bay

Weather Partly cloudy
Low 12 °C

Partly cloudy. Wind northwest 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low 12.

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

From the line

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