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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 100% — 5 09:25 expect to wait 40% 07:56 5 11:45 expect to wait 40% 11:36 5 14:30 expect to wait 20% 14:01 5 16:55 room most days 80% 16:25 5 19:05 room most days 100% — 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 light becoming northwest 5 to 15 knots late overnight. Wind northwest 5 to 15 Sunday. No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 20 days forecast for light winds since 2026-08-13. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Sunday. · issued 34 days ago · cancellation counts are FerryCast's own
At Saltery Bay · ECCC Chance of showers · low 10 °C Powell River · Tonight · issued 35 days ago

FerryCast

Saturday · peak summer

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

14:30

Actual departure

14:32

2 min late

5 comparable sailings

80% ran out of room
1had space
4filled

Of the 4 that filled: 4 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.

Arrive before

14:01 29 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 4 camera · line
  • Cancelled 0 · 0%

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

Not enough exact matches, so the search was widened to all seasons; then widened to +/-60 min; then widened to include days outside a long weekend, which behave differently.

Tags for this date: long_weekend

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-10-10 14:30 filled up yes heavy
2026-10-03 14:30 filled up yes heavy
2026-09-26 14:30 filled up yes heavy
2026-09-19 14:30 filled up yes overflowing
2026-09-12 14:30 made it 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 No cancellations in 20 days of light winds

Forecast

On the water

Wind NW 5–15 kt

Wind light becoming northwest 5 to 15 knots late overnight. Wind northwest 5 to 15 Sunday.

What it means for sailings

No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 20 days forecast for light winds since 2026-08-13.

Issued 34 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Sunday. · cancellation history is FerryCast's own

At Saltery Bay

Weather Chance of showers
Low 10 °C
Chance of precipitation 30%

Partly cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers this evening. Clearing near midnight. Low 10.

Issued 35 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Powell River · Tonight

From the line

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