Outboards, Sailboats, Lake Tahoe

Dennis W. Farrell (dfarrell@ridgecrest.ca.us)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:24:00 -0800


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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(thanks to Dik Richardson for spotting this)
>From the Sacramento Bee
Newswatch: South Lake Tahoe Agency exempts sailboat engines

(Published Feb. 25, 1999)

Sailboat owners whose craft use auxiliary engines were the only winners
Wednesday at the end of another lengthy public debate about which two-stroke
engines should be banned from Lake Tahoe come summer.
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency board was asked to exempt auxiliary
engines on sailboats and low-powered outboard engines from a sweeping
crackdown on "dirty" two-stroke engines.

Sailboat owners asked to be allowed to use their two-stroke auxiliary
engines for three more summers.

Board members approved an exemption from the ban until Oct. 1, 2001.

The board also was asked to extend the same concession to all two-stroke
outboards of 10 horsepower or less, but decided to wait another month before
making a final decision on low-powered two-stroke engines.

-- Ian Harmer