Excessive noise created by boat engines, which draws about as many public complaints at Lake Tahoe as illegal buoys, could become easier for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to muffle this summer.

You’re trolling a ledge, seamount or baitball with a ­handful of boats around you. No bites yet, but you’re steadily marking fish and making several passes over an area that should be producing. Then ...

The way Bruce Kaye figures it, more is less. Kaye, of Inverness, has spent five years creating a gearbox that will make air boat engines run more efficiently with much less of the ear-splitting noise ...

A far cry from the loud, smoky engines of the past, today’s diesel power is cleaner, quieter and more fuel efficient than ever before in the history of marine propulsion. Technological advancements ...