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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% 07:57 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 · Gale warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · September · 09 · Monday · 28 · 04 · 30 · 202609280430 · Monday September 28, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Sunday · 27 · 21 · 202609272130 · Sunday September 27, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning Wind light increasing to southeast 15 knots late overnight and to southeast 20 to 30 near noon Monday. Wind becoming southeast 25 to 35 early Monday evening. Rain Monday evening. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Monday. · issued 11 days ago
At Saltery Bay · ECCC A few clouds · low 7 °C Powell River · Tonight · issued 12 days ago

FerryCast

Sunday / holiday · shoulder

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

14:30

Actual departure

14:29

1 min early

5 comparable sailings

100% ran out of room
5filled

Of the 5 that filled: 5 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

13:50 40 min before departure — arrivals by then typically still got on these sailings

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 0 · 0%
  • Ran out of room 5 · 100%
  • Left vehicles behind 5 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 14:30 filled up yes heavy
2026-09-20 14:30 filled up yes heavy
2026-09-13 14:30 filled up yes overflowing
2026-08-30 14:30 filled up yes overflowing
2026-08-23 14:30 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 A few clouds Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Gale warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · September · 09 · Monday · 28 · 04 · 30 · 202609280430 · Monday September 28, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Sunday · 27 · 21 · 202609272130 · Sunday September 27, 2026 at 21:30 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning

Wind SE 15 kt
Visibility Rain Monday evening.

Wind light increasing to southeast 15 knots late overnight and to southeast 20 to 30 near noon Monday. Wind becoming southeast 25 to 35 early Monday evening.

Issued 11 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Monday.

At Saltery Bay

Weather A few clouds
Low 7 °C

Clear. Becoming partly cloudy this evening. Wind northwest 20 km/h becoming light early this evening. Low 7.

Issued 12 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Powell River · Tonight

From the line

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