SCHEDULE OF SERVICE

1. Round Trips – Annual

  • Peak Season is the ten-week period from the last Wednesday of June until Labour Day inclusive. During the peak season there will be seventeen round trips each week.
  • Non-Peak Season is the remainder of the year; there will be fourteen round trips each week. There will be no trips on Christmas and New Year’s Day.

2. Sailing Schedule

Peak Schedule (Starts June 29)

Leave False Bay,
Lasqueti
Leave French
Creek
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
08:00 AM 09:30 AM X X X X X
11:00 AM 02:30 PM X X X X X
01:00 PM 02:30 PM X
04:00 PM 05:30 PM X X X X X X

 Non-Peak Schedule

Leave False Bay,
Lasqueti
Leave French
Creek
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
08:00 AM 09:30 AM X X X X
11:00 AM 02:30 PM X X X X
01:00 PM 02:30 PM X
04:00 PM 05:30 PM X X X X X

In addition, there are five additional sailings each year scheduled at 06:45 PM on Mondays of long weekends that fall between Easter and Thanksgiving

3. Weather Cancellations

  • When the 05:30 PM sailing from French Creek is cancelled (except Mondays) the ferry will make-up the sailing by departing French Creek the following morning at 06:30 AM.
  • On any Monday, when the 05:30 PM sailing from French Creek is cancelled, the ferry will make-up the sailing by departing French Creek on Tuesday morning at 08:00 AM, and return from False Bay at 09:45 AM carrying passengers in both directions
  • On any Monday, when the 04:00 PM sailing from False Bay is cancelled, the ferry will make-up the sailing by departing False Bay on Tuesday morning at 08:00 AM and retur from French Creek at 09:45 AM. In this situation, the ferry will immediately return to French Creek after discharging passengers at False Bay. If additional passengers are on the False Bay dock at this time, they will also be returned to French Creek.

Ferry cargo rules that are appreciated by crew and passengers.
Get there early so ramp is free and you can load all your stuff closer to end of dock so you are one of the first to load on boat.

Then when you get to Lasqueti you unload onto everything onto lower dock near ramp up , so next ferry can load.
THEN you take everything up to the storage hut at end of drive dock.
THEN you go find your vehicle as most of busy traffic will be gone by then

For more detailed information please visit Western Pacific Marine the ferry operator, or call 250-927-0431.