I hate summer on the North Atlantic......

[John Pancoast]

To much daylight, not enough darkness = having to provide a LOT of shadowing reports. Shadowed a convoy from 0850 on, trying to call in a wolf pack via hourly beacons.
Each hourly reply from BdU is encouraging; boats on their way, keep providing beacons, etc. You know the score.
2150 comes along and it's finally getting dark...........BdU replies to my last beacon............"Other boats unavailable....." !
Thirteen game hours of shadowing with associated convoy zigs and zags (or is that zags and zigs ?) for naught, at least wolf pack-wise.
So today I get the same scenario with an 0950 start........they must have heard the prior cursing from thousands of miles away, as this time the pack shows up !
I think I used up my laptops memory storing the list of contact reports I sent in with consecutive convoys requiring shadowing of 13 and 12 game hours each....