Rolf,

Last weekend we had wind generated waves that were not terribly confused. The issue was they were comming from a ways off and where we were located there was not the wind, at least sufficient to move through the amount of chop.

The only solution to that I know of is to do like you say and just keep the boat moving however you can. It was brutally obvoius when it was not done correctly as you came to an immediate stop in the water. The laylines and tacks were long, but if you did not keep a lot of twist in the sail and foot like mad, it was longer.