I was living in Brightlingsea, Essex at the time and working in Woodbridge, Suffolk. The Mi Amigo was often serviced from Brightlingsea, and the DJs used to stay at a hotel called Jacobs Hall in the town, which was run by the parents of a fellow cadet in Brightlingsea Sailing Club. Needless to say, autographs were obtained - I must still have them somewhere.

Chris Moore, Simon Dee, Tony Blackburn, even Ronan O'Rahily himself signed my little black book, if I remember right! I was 17 or 18 at the time, so the sycophancy can perhaps be forgiven.

I even have a hazy memory of a cricket game against the crew and DJs on a sandbank between the ship and the shore.

One track that they used to play has just returned to my mind - "Surfer Girl" by the Four Seasons. Not the Beach Boys song of the same name, which was a little anodyne by comparison. This was a young love/disaster song, "angry seas took my love from me" - never heard it since - must do a search.

Ain't memory strange? Thanks for the nostalgia.

PS At about that time I used to play at the Folk Club at St Osyth's College, Clacton and at other Folk Clubs in the area. Wonder if I met Penny S there?

"But she's probably married now, kids and all, and grown into a grown-up female stranger"

Possible double post here - apologies if it happens!