Rainbow was HEAVY

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=105 BGCOLOR="#66CCCC" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="07500690ezvthe.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CCFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>JBoats</B></FONT><B>   |  </B><B> </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JBoats"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#66CCCC" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="076c8212ezvthe.gif"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=375 BGCOLOR="#66CCCC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Rainbow was HEAVY</B></div> <bR> <div> Rainbow weighed 141 tons</div> <div> (Thats equivalent to approximately 70 automobiles)</div> <bR> <div> The riveted aluminum mast weighed 5500 pounds</div> <bR> <div> The keel contained   80 (eighty)  tons of fixed lead</div> <bR> <div> There were 30 (thirty) tons of moveable lead ingots below decks</div> <div>  After each trial run or race the team leaders would determine what changes should be made to the ballast to improve performance.  (Guess who manually moved each ingot of lead?)</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>