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• n  a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine

• For four years, the Miami-to-Nassau powerboat race has been monopolized by Boatbuilder Dick Bertram, 49, whose V-hulled Moppies were especially designed to knife through the .
• An FBI wiretap once recorded him plotting in Miami to murder a Chicago union boss by taking him out to sea in a powerboat, slitting his throat, chopping up his body and feeding the .
• The Gold Cup means to powerboat racing roughly the same thing that the Indianapolis 500 does to auto racing.

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News & Articles

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• Self-professed Hoosier wins Maple City Grand Prix
  La PORTE — The first-place spot at the inaugural Maple City Grand Prix powerboat race went to an Indiana native who now resides in Tampa, Fla.
  June 12, 2013 - The Michigan City News-Dispatch
• Maple City Grand Prix opens in LP
  La PORTE — In anticipation of the weekend’s races, people already were flocking to Stone Lake on Friday afternoon to watch powerboats make test drive laps around the course.
  June 12, 2013 - The Michigan City News-Dispatch
• Brockovich busted for DUI – on water
  Activist Erin Brockovich was arrested for driving a powerboat while drunk, officials said yesterday. Brockovich — famously played by Julia Roberts in the 2000 hit film “Erin Brockovich” — was busted on Lake Mead, near Las Vegas, as she tried to maneuver her boat into a marina slip Friday night, officials said...
  June 10, 2013 - New York Post