Dynamics Tutorial - manual animation

[JoJackman]

In the Dynamics tutorial, it says that an object can be manually animated through the water and create wakes when dynamics is unselected. This would be useful in a scene I am working on, but I can't get it to work. With dynamics unselected, no wake/waves are calculated; with it on, you can't manually animate.

Is manual animation without dynamics possible as the tut says? If so, any clue what I might be doing wrong?