A power outage on northern Vancouver Island affected sevearl ferry sailings between Sointula and Port McNeill on Monday.
B.C. Ferries said a combination of the outage and morning tidal conditions made it so the Island K'ulut'a was unable to offload traffic at Sointula for the 7:50 a.m. arrival, or onload traffic for the 7:55 a.m. departure to Port McNeill.
The ferry was able to resume loading and unloading traffic with the next arrival in Sointula, scheduled for 10:50 a.m., but the subsequent sailing was running 24 minutes behind schedule.
More than 7,400 homes and businesses on the North Island were without power Monday morning after a transmission line circuit failure.
There were 15 outages in total, according to B.C. Hydro.
Customers were affected in Port McNeill, Port Hardy, Port Alice, Alert Bay and surrounding areas.
