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Surf Advert (c. The 1990's)

I remember an advert for either Persil or Surf Washing Powder from the early 1990's. This advert showed a family of four (father, mother, son and daughter) on a sailing holiday aboard their sailing yacht. Basically, it went something like this: (1) The family's yacht sailed away from the local coastline with everyone happy. (2) At one point, the family come down the steps into the main cabin to have their afternoon lunch. (3) Just as the family sit down together and start having lunch, the weather suddenly turns bad and the yacht begins swaying and rolling about in the heavy seas. This makes it impossible for the family to have their meal. (4) The daughter is the first of their family to get her clothes stained. This happens when a plate slides off the table and lands in her lap. She takes a look down and then up at her parents with a frowning look on her face. (5) The father and mother are the next two to fall victim to this. As the yacht rolls again, the dad sees another desert begining to slide towards the end of the table. He reaches out with an arm to try and tip it away from his wife but unfortunately he misses, and he ends up putting the sleeve into desert, causing his wife to spill her drink all down her front staining her top. She leans back slightly, looks down and frowns at this. (6) The son laughs and points at the other three's embarrassment but he doesn't for long as a cupboard door near him and a number of eggs go flying. He closes his eyes and frowns as they land on his top splattering egg yoke all over it. (7) After a while, the weather settles down. The family, frowning, all get together and later their clothes are all washed with either Surf Washing powder. (8) With everyone now happy again, the father and daughter head out to the stern while the son puts on his now-freshly washed top agai, smiling as he does so. As he does this he is given a hg by his mother. They both then go outside to join the others. (9) As the family now sit together at the stern with all of them wearing lifebelts, they decide to try and continue with their delayed-lunch. As they do so,their yacht bounces over another wave. The Dad immediately looks down at his top to see if he's stained it, but luckily he hasn't. The others laugh at him and then continue on with their lunh and their voyage. (10) The final image of the advert is a box of either Surf Washing Powder large in the foreground while the family's yacht far away in the distant background. It's been an extremely long time since I've seen that advert. I don't usually remember adverts this well but, for some reason, while I can remember the images, I can't for the life of me, remember what the slogan was. Would really like to see this advert again as I've been looking for it for ages!


Do You Remember Surf Advert (c. The 1990's)?

Do You Remember Surf Advert (c. The 1990's)?