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The State's plan under consideration to mandate engines that are
too big and too heavy to fit in existing engine rooms is the reason
for this email. This is a BIG PROBLEM. But, rather than tabling
this plan, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is stating
that boat owners can simply buy new ones, that would range in cost
from $4.6 million to $5.7 million.
 
These CARB's solution under consideration "purchasing expensive new
boats" cannot just be paid for through increased passenger ticket
prices. To buy new boats, one-day fishing and or whale watching
trips would have to Triple in Price. There is no way we can afford
to take ourselves or their families out on the ocean at those
prices and this will mark the beginning of the end of these
businesses, our  access to the sea.

Given the current economic climate it is unthinkable that such a
law would be instituted on this industry trying to recover from the
pandemic lock downs.