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Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Today · 11:09 · Friday · shoulder

8 sailings today

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

Easiest sailings after 14:30
Hardest stretch 09:25–14:30
05:35 toss-up 60% 03:36 5 07:25 room most days 80% 05:53 5 09:25 expect to wait 20% 09:15 5
Now · 11:09
14:30 expect to wait 40% 13:59 5 16:55 room most days 100% — 5 19:05 room most days 100% — 5 21:00last boat 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 Friday · shoulder · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC ⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Gale warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · October · 10 · Friday · 09 · 13 · 15 · 202610091315 · Friday October 09, 2026 at 13:15 UTC · 06 · 202610090615 · Friday October 09, 2026 at 06:15 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning Wind northwest 25 to 35 knots becoming northwest 20 to 30 late this morning then diminishing to northwest 15 to 20 late overnight. Wind diminishing to northwest 10 to 15 Saturday morning then increasing to northwest 15 to 20 Saturday afternoon. Wind diminishing to northwest 10 to 15 Saturday evening. Showers this morning. Showers overnight and Saturday morning. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Today Tonight and Saturday. · issued 4 h ago
At Saltery Bay · ECCC Periods of rain · high 14 °C Powell River · Today · issued 6 h ago

FerryCast

Friday · shoulder

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

19:05 in 7 h 55 min

5 comparable sailings

0% ran out of room
5had space

The board reported on 5 of the 5; camera frames or line reports sharpened 4 of those.

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 5 · 100%
  • Ran out of room 0 · 0%
  • Cancelled 0 · 0%

More than one kind of evidence — camera frames, the board, or first-hand reports.

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

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

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-10-02 19:05 made it no one has said —
2026-09-25 19:05 made it no moderate
2026-09-18 19:05 made it no moderate
2026-09-11 19:05 made it no moderate
2026-09-04 19:05 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 25–35 kt Periods of rain Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Gale warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · October · 10 · Friday · 09 · 13 · 15 · 202610091315 · Friday October 09, 2026 at 13:15 UTC · 06 · 202610090615 · Friday October 09, 2026 at 06:15 PDT · Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning

Wind NW 25–35 kt
Visibility Showers this morning. Showers overnight and Saturday morning.

Wind northwest 25 to 35 knots becoming northwest 20 to 30 late this morning then diminishing to northwest 15 to 20 late overnight. Wind diminishing to northwest 10 to 15 Saturday morning then increasing to northwest 15 to 20 Saturday afternoon. Wind diminishing to northwest 10 to 15 Saturday evening.

Issued 4 h ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Today Tonight and Saturday.

At Saltery Bay

Weather Periods of rain
High 14 °C

Periods of rain ending this morning then a mix of sun and cloud. Wind becoming northwest 30 km/h gusting to 50 except gusting to 70 near the Strait of Georgia. High 14. UV index 2 or low.

Issued 6 h ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Powell River · Today

From the line

This sailing hasn't gone yet. Once it has, you can add when you joined the line, when it left and whether you got on — deck space and the camera can tell whether the vessel filled, but only a person in the queue knows who made it.

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