The Portland is a sailing hold scow, built of kauri in 1910, by George Nicholl of Auckland. Length 75ft, beam 22ft, draught 5ft 6 inches, and originally ketch rigged.
The Portland traded in and around Auckland until 1932 when she came to Nelson, and traded between the Tasman Bay harbours and Wellington for over 40 years. She is now fitted with two 4L3 Gardner diesel engines of 72hp, each for auxillary power.
The Portland is the only surviving serviceable hold scow in New Zealand, most of these ships were taken to the Pacific for war use and never came back.
Just where you most likely parked is an ideal picnic spot and in the summer months you can swim out to the pontoon. Or if you wish carry on walking around the point to another of my caches.
For more information see;
www.nzetc.org/tm/.../tei-NHSJ04_02-t1-body1-d1.html