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Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Sunday / holiday · shoulder

8 sailings

Every departure, what it usually does, and the hour you would have had to arrive.

Easiest sailings before 09:25, after 16:55
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 40% 10:29 5 14:30 expect to wait 0% 13:50 5 16:55 toss-up 60% 14:58 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 · shoulder · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC ⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · September · 09 · Monday · 14 · 04 · 30 · 202609140430 · Monday September 14, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Sunday · 13 · 21 · 202609132130 · Sunday September 13, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo Wind southeast 15 knots except southwest 20 near Qualicum Beach. Wind becoming southeast 5 to 15 early Monday morning then becoming light early Monday evening. Showers Monday. No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 32 days forecast for strong winds since 2026-08-12. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Monday. · issued 26 days ago · cancellation counts are FerryCast's own
At Saltery Bay · ECCC Partly cloudy · low 11 °C Powell River · Tonight · issued 26 days ago

FerryCast

Sunday / holiday · shoulder

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

16:55

Actual departure

16:57

2 min late

5 comparable sailings

40% ran out of room
3had space
2filled

Of the 2 that filled: 2 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

14:58 117 min before departure — arrivals by then typically still got on these sailings

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 3 · 60%
  • Ran out of room 2 · 40%
  • Left vehicles behind 2 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.

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-10-04 16:55 made it no heavy
2026-09-27 16:55 made it no heavy
2026-09-20 16:55 made it no heavy
2026-08-30 16:55 filled up yes overflowing
2026-08-23 16:55 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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SE 15 kt No cancellations in 32 days of strong winds Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · September · 09 · Monday · 14 · 04 · 30 · 202609140430 · Monday September 14, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Sunday · 13 · 21 · 202609132130 · Sunday September 13, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo

Wind SE 15 kt
Visibility Showers Monday.

Wind southeast 15 knots except southwest 20 near Qualicum Beach. Wind becoming southeast 5 to 15 early Monday morning then becoming light early Monday evening.

What it means for sailings

No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 32 days forecast for strong winds since 2026-08-12.

Issued 26 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Monday. · cancellation history is FerryCast's own

At Saltery Bay

Weather Partly cloudy
Low 11 °C

Partly cloudy. Low 11.

Issued 26 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Powell River · Tonight

From the line

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