Ever “ stuff the bow” through a wave ?

[Pipe_Dream]

I've done it more than once, but the most memorable was in the Cooper River, Daufuskie Island on a chilly February day a few years ago. Took friends to a place there for food and drink and while we'd been enjoying ourselves a strong northeast wind had set up against the tide which flows strong through the river. We left the dock and were idling out into the channel and the waves were getting larger as I increased power. One was much larger than the others and the bow went under and a wall of water came right up over the windshield. No top on the boat because we were trying to make the most of the sunshine, so nothing to divert it from us. Soaked him and me from the waist down, and the girls who were seated in the stern from the knees down, and it took a while for all the water to exit through the scuppers. That water was COLD.