I was out today in 3-4 waves, 5 foot swells, and cut the motor off to drift fish for sharks. I was not fishing, just steering to stay straight with the swells.
Luckily the swells were far apart, but still not really fun. Visitors from out of state who wanted to catch a shark. Well, we got 2 and one passenger helped my chum bag.:) No one argued when I called the day and we moved to fish the ICW.