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I'm in agreement with Baywatch, angling into a big swell will often get you sideways to the swell, which fills the boat even worse than taking it elevator style. It's probably true that angling off the swell just a little is best, but as soon as the boat goes any further off perp. and a swell hits, it fills. We tried this in years past.
This is not true. Hitting it dead on, elevator style or escalator style is no good, unless you have spray covers. You have to to angle to let the boat slide over the top, especially so as not to get caught bridging two waves in the trough.what happened that night with the swamp was probably the boat was going directly into the wave, with some short interval swell, and was in the trough and the wave just filled the boat straight from the top both sides.we're not talking a major angle, but a slight angle off perpendicular usually will help.
This whole thing is not about huli at all. Nobody hulied. All that happened was swamping and the discussion is about how to avoid that and how to empty a swamped kanu.