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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1520, 12 June 1919, Page 41

Mr. S. M. Dempster, a well-known Sydney business man, accompanied by a number of other yachting enthusiasts, set out last month from Sydney in the crack yacht Stormy Petrel on a cruise to the Torres Straits and New Guinea. The Stormy Petrel is 54ft. 6in. long and has a beam of 12ft. 9in. She has a draught of 7ft. 4in., and the registered tonnage is 24.44. The cruise will occupy four months. The craft is to visit Broken Bay, then Port Stephens, and a stay will also be made in Moreton Bay before proceeding to Thursday Island, which will be the base of the tourists. The New Guinea coast will be explored, and a peep along the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria will be undertaken. It will be the longest trip that has been undertaken by a yacht on the Australian coast for many years. In the early days the Jess put up a great performance by sailing to Thursday Island. Of later years Mr. Walter M. Marks took a long voyage in the Culwulla 111., now known as the Eun-na-mara. She travelled nearly 7000 miles of ocean, including one trip from Sydney Heads to Brisbane, and from Sydney to Hobart, and thence to Port Phillip, in quest of the Sayonara Cup, which was eventually won on an appeal from the Sayonara.