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John, this is the picture in question. Clive

Hi Moffat Marine
I am unfortunately unable to see the picture of the Nemo at the Palace Breakwater for some reason but I have never seen a pleasure boat at the palace so it must be quite unique. I guess the low tide must have caused a move further down the beach as it silted up over the years. I have a good collection of Nemo photos over the years from the launch up to the 80's and then the wreck pictures in the 90's. it is most definitely NemoII registered London. I last spoke with Dick in 1992 at the St Osyth Boatyard, I had known him for about 40 years at that stage. He had an anchor on his cap that was originally mine. They were good days.

It was interesting to come upon this thread while browsing the internet. I can confirm most of what Jerry Lawes mentioned. As a child we used to holiday at Clacton where my granparents lived and both my father and mother had met and married. My interest in all things boats found me hanging around the beach and the crew of the Nemo II took a liking to me and let me help them with ropes and anchors, etc. As I grew up I would spend all my six weeks school holidays on the beach helping out the Nemo II for which I got paid the princely sum of ten shillings a day, remember this was the late 50's. I think that I would have known Jerry or maybe it was his brother. I used to go to Reg Lawes house and pick up his lunch every day. I have a number of photos of the Nemo II on my wall at home and when I came across pictures of her as a wreck in Wales I felt very upset. I remember the sinking in the late 50's and think that it was on a Friday because we arrived at Clacton that night to get the bad news and I can remember Newt King nervously pacing the pier while the salvage operation went ahead some weeks after the sinking. When I left school and went to work I didn't visit Clacton very often but remember when Newt retired and sold his share to a chap called Sonny who was a motor mechanic. When Reg sold out Dick Harman who owned the Viking Saga bought in and after that I lost contact except I did see Dick at his boatyard in St Osyth in about 1997. Dick was the person who put the updated bow on and enclosed wheelhouse, I never cared for the alterations. Something of interest is that the Nemo II had a set of oars which were stowed under the seating and I remember Reg telling me that one evening they had rowed her out to the mooring.