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Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Saturday · shoulder

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 100% — 5 07:25 room most days 80% — 5 09:25 expect to wait 20% 08:08 5 11:45 expect to wait 0% 11:36 5 14:30 expect to wait 20% 13:59 5 16:55 toss-up 60% 16:25 5 19:05 room most days 80% — 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 Saturday · shoulder · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC Wind northwest 5 to 15 knots becoming light Sunday morning. Fog patches dissipating Sunday morning. No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 45 days forecast for light winds since 2026-08-13. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Sunday. · issued 5 days ago · cancellation counts are FerryCast's own
At Saltery Bay · ECCC Increasing cloudiness · low 9 °C Powell River · Tonight · issued 5 days ago

FerryCast

Saturday · shoulder

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

14:30

Actual departure

14:29

1 min early

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

13:59 31 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.

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
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
2026-08-29 14:30 filled up yes overflowing
2026-08-22 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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NW 5–15 kt No cancellations in 45 days of light winds

Forecast

On the water

Wind NW 5–15 kt
Visibility Fog patches dissipating Sunday morning.

Wind northwest 5 to 15 knots becoming light Sunday morning.

What it means for sailings

No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 45 days forecast for light winds since 2026-08-13.

Issued 5 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 Increasing cloudiness
Low 9 °C

Clear. Increasing cloudiness late this evening. Fog patches developing overnight. Low 9.

Issued 5 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Powell River · Tonight

From the line

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