cause of the puddinstone accident?

[gn7]

There are no steering requirements in the COR rules, some guys use hydraulic, some cable, some push pull family cruiser cable crap.

That's a problem. Single cable with a cast tiller bolted to the engine doesn't cut it with boats side by side in a turn. Not saying that's what happened, saying could if its allowed to continue. The rules call for a cable pulley, double push/pull, or hydraulic. Nothing really wrong with any of those. A single push/pull if allowed could be deadly.

I don't really know the solution, but you can't just turn a blind eye to some stuff in a effort to get anybody and everybody on the water. The boat it encounters when something fails maybe yours. I know its a grand idea, and we all want to see as many as possible get involved, but it still has to be safe, FOR EVERYBODY INVOLVED.

I wouldn't be surprised that the "rules" as written aren't what the APBA is looking at. What they do about it is anybody's guess.