It's a long way and a slow trip to the seas off Freetown in a U-boat, even if running on the surface. But orders are orders, these being for my latest patrol with the Doenitz Elite Flotilla
http://www.donitzeliteflotilla.com/HTML/index.html Viktor Schuetze was a real-life CO of 2.U-Flotille in Lorient where the real U-105 was based, and is role-played for my patrol by DEF staff. We'll communicate by simulated radio traffic during the patrol. Adds a whole new dimension.
Anyhow, the long trip to Freetown is longer still, if you meet interesting people on the way.
Interesting people like these...
...and later, these...
...and having managed to excuse myself from the previous lot, these...
Having a party? Oh dear no wait, those will be distress flares!
Sorry, fellas, gotta go, I have business in great waters, as in that book. No hard feelings???