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Cormorant Water Taxi

Photography, Noam Olsson, 2023

Scheduled & Chartered
Water Taxi Service for
Howe Sound

Online Booking is available for scheduled services running between Horseshoe Bay / Sunset Marina to Bowyer Island, Halkett Bay, Long Bay, Sea Ranch / Artaban and intermediate docks as well as Center Bay, West Bay and Gambier Harbour. 

All other bookings, including Keats Island, Anvil Island, Pasley Island or Sunshine Coast and charters please call our dispatch on (604) 250-2630

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Online Booking
Gambier Island Service

Book one way online tickets or take advantage of our preferred pricing eCards loaded with either 10 or 20 trips. 

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Gambier Island

Photography, Noam Olsson, 2023

The Cormorant at McNab Creek

About Cormorant Water Taxi

Travel with someone who knows these waters. We've been running the Cormorant Water Taxi service in Howe Sound since 1978. Our home port is Snug Cove on Bowen Island, BC. Points of departure throughout Howe Sound include:

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From or to your private dock, or government dock

Horseshoe Bay

Sunset Marina

Lions Bay

Gambier Harbour, and of course, Snug Cove on Bowen Island

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Where we go

Our five water taxis provide both scheduled and charter service throughout the area as well as BC Ambulance service with the Bowen Responder (see Our fleet). We operate year round with a capacity of 1 to 100 passengers.

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Transport is provided to:

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  • Recreational properties

  • Church camps

  • Island residents

  • Construction crews and freight

  • Film Production

  • Weddings

  • Hiking destinations

  • Tours

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The Bowen Responder is always ready to transport people to the mainland in an emergency

We also provide

  • Emergency and essential services:

    • Ambulance

    • B C  Hydro

    • Coast  Guard   (Auxiliary Member since 1980)

    • RCMP

    • Bowen Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue

    • Marine Assistance

Coast Mountains looking East on Howe Sound between Gambier Island and Bowen Island
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604-250-2630  |  cormorantmarine@telus.net

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Cargo Policy

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For scheduled trips, when you travel with Cormorant Marine consider luggage limitations on our boats. Guidance: if you can carry it in-one-go; we can too. We charge extra for excess baggage per person over and above personal goods and luggage.. Payment for this will be collected when loading at the pick-up locations by cash or credit card. Items considered “excessive and over-sized” and not personal luggage include: freight, all fuels, building materials, gardening materials, machinery and furniture etc. These must be discussed with dispatch prior to booking. For booking freight transportation please contact; Operations Manager Mike Laudrum directly at 604-250-2630.

 

For chartered trips, please discuss your cargo needs with our dispatch. 

Cancellations & Rebookings

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For scheduled trips to and from Gambier Island (Bowyer Island), you can rebook or cancel your reservation online 12 hours prior to the trip. No show - No refund 

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You will have to have booked the trip while logged on to our site with your user id to be able to rebook it ahead of time. Your logon to our web site ties the booking to you. To rebook, log on and go to My Bookings and reschedule. There is no charge! You can only rebook the group that you previously booked as a whole. If you have the situation where individuals in your group might want to rebook separately, book them in separate transactions in anticipation of that. You can only rebook to another online scheduled trip; the online booking can't be applied to a charter. If you can't rebook and you need to cancel, please note, refunds currently take 5 to 10 days for our processing service and the refund is subject to an 8% non-refundable booking fee. If possible, reschedule your trip to an available sailing. No partial cancellations or partial rebookings are possible!

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There is a new alternative. If you purchase a Cormorant eCard, it will come preloaded with 10 or 20 trips. When a trip was booked with the Cormorant eCard, you can cancel the trip a minimum of 12 hours before the scheduled departure time and have the balance returned to your card immediately without a fee.

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For chartered trips, please liaise with our dispatch 12 hours before departure. Charges may apply.

Watch a short video to demonstrate how to rebook an online booked reservation:

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