Date: February 03, 2003 at 09:05:43 From:Judy Patsch, [spider-wa023.proxy.aol.com] Subject: Re: another Julia Belle Swain?
Unfortunately, I'm an Ebay 'expert', and I suspect that the Racine got in the title either because the postcard company was there, or the seller bought the card there and is trying to generate local interest by including Racine in the title. That boat never was there. It was built by the Swains but originally named the Charles E. Cessna. It ran in Florida, but the Swains repossed her in 1916 and renamed her JBS at that time. Swains ran her on the Illinois River. In 1924 they sold her and she went to Pittsburgh, where she burned in 1931. She was quite a bit bigger than our current JBS: 169 x 34 / 108/22 and a whole lot uglier! ...........
