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Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Friday · shoulder

8 sailings

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

Easiest sailings before 07:25
Hardest stretch 09:25–14:30
05:35 room most days 80% 03:36 5 07:25 toss-up 60% 05:53 5 09:25 expect to wait 0% 07:38 5 11:45 expect to wait 0% 11:23 5 14:30 expect to wait 20% 13:59 5 16:55 toss-up 60% 14:56 5 19:05 toss-up 60% — 5 21:00 toss-up 60% — 5
had room filled up waited one waited two+ *no exact match, so the search was widened — open a sailing to see how Friday · shoulder · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC Wind light becoming northwest 5 to 15 knots near midnight. Wind northwest 5 to 15 Saturday. Periods of drizzle and fog patches ending Saturday morning. No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 44 days forecast for light winds since 2026-08-13. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Saturday. · issued 6 days ago · cancellation counts are FerryCast's own
At Saltery Bay · ECCC Chance of showers · low 10 °C Powell River · Tonight · issued 7 days ago

FerryCast

Friday · shoulder

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

05:35

Actual departure

05:34

1 min early

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.

Arrive before

03:36 119 min before departure — arrivals by then typically still got on these sailings

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.

Not enough exact matches, so the search was widened to all seasons.

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-09-25 05:35 filled up yes overflowing
2026-09-18 05:35 made it no moderate
2026-09-11 05:35 made it no moderate
2026-08-28 05:35 made it no moderate
2026-08-21 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 No cancellations in 44 days of light winds

Forecast

On the water

Wind NW 5–15 kt
Visibility Periods of drizzle and fog patches ending Saturday morning.

Wind light becoming northwest 5 to 15 knots near midnight. Wind northwest 5 to 15 Saturday.

What it means for sailings

No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 44 days forecast for light winds since 2026-08-13.

Issued 6 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Saturday. · cancellation history is FerryCast's own

At Saltery Bay

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

Mainly cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers early this evening. Fog patches developing overnight. Wind southeast 20 km/h becoming light early this evening. Low 10.

Issued 7 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Powell River · Tonight

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