Yep Capalina is a great option if you share with a group, find them on FB.
The sea chop is worse in the afternoons (sea breezes whips it up) so get the early shift. Ditto if you self hire one of the little ones.
Or if you are really dumb buy a boat like I did, you can go boating whenever you want, however you will be eating flour and water for the rest of your life (with a nice suntan, mind)
So combining being a City fan and pouring all my money into a boat shaped hole in the sea I’m definitely a masochist!!
If City get promoted I will happily offer any ST holders free boating trips for our first season in the prem *
* if i am not dead or bankrupt by then