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Private Boat Tours from Positano

Depart from Positano's Spiaggia Grande for a private boat tour that turns the world's most photographed village into your personal starting point. From here, the Li Galli Islands lie just 4 miles offshore, Capri is 90 minutes to the west, and the full Amalfi Coast stretches east — a coastline best understood from the water, where the cliffs, the coves, and the villages reveal dimensions no road ever shows. Every tour is fully private, fully crewed, and shaped entirely around your day.

The Most Iconic Departure on the Italian Coast

There are views of Positano that appear in every Italy travel feature, every Instagram grid, every honeymoon mood board - the pastel towers rising from the hillside, the bougainvillea cascading over the terraces, the beach curving around the foot of the village. But the view that stays with guests longest is rarely captured: the one from the water, looking back at Positano with the whole amphitheater of color rising above you as your yacht pulls away from shore. A private boat tour from Positano opens up a coastline that is simply inaccessible by road. The coves between Positano and Praiano are reachable only by water — small bays of extraordinary clarity, backed by vertical rock faces, where the only sound is the sea against the hull. The Li Galli archipelago, 4 nautical miles south, was once the home of the Sirens in Greek mythology and later owned by Rudolf Nureyev - an island group of wild volcanic beauty that most visitors to Positano never see. West, your skipper navigates the Sorrento coastline toward Capri - a crossing of about 90 minutes that rewards you with the island's eastern face, carved by millennia of Tyrrhenian storms into a series of sea caves, natural arches, and the soaring Faraglioni that have defined the image of the Italian south for two centuries. East, the Amalfi Coast unfolds in stages: the hidden fjord at Furore, the cerulean water at Conca dei Marini, and eventually the golden cathedral facade of Amalfi itself rising from its medieval harbor.

FAQ

  • The most request­ed routes are: (1) Posi­tano to Capri — a full-day char­ter cov­er­ing the Li Gal­li Islands, Capri’s sea caves, the Faraglioni, and the Blue Grot­to; (2) the Amal­fi Coast run — head­ing east to Pra­iano, the Furore Fjord, Con­ca dei Mari­ni, and Amal­fi; and (3) a half-day Li Gal­li and hid­den coves tour for guests with lim­it­ed time. Full-day Ischia and Pro­ci­da char­ters are also avail­able and pop­u­lar for guests who want to explore beyond the imme­di­ate coastline.

  • The Li Gal­li Islands — also known as the Sirenuse — are an unin­hab­it­ed vol­canic arch­i­pel­ago 4 nau­ti­cal miles south of Posi­tano, in the Tyrrhen­ian Sea. In Greek mythol­o­gy, they were the home of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths. In the 20th cen­tu­ry, the islands were owned by Russ­ian bal­let dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who used them as a pri­vate retreat. Today they are a pro­tect­ed area of excep­tion­al nat­ur­al beau­ty. Anchor­ing near­by for morn­ing swim­ming in their crys­talline water is one of the most mem­o­rable ele­ments of any Posi­tano pri­vate charter.

  • Yes. Da Adol­fo is one of Posi­tano’s most cel­e­brat­ed and char­ac­ter­ful restau­rants — a rus­tic water­front spot on a small peb­ble beach below the vil­lage, acces­si­ble only by the restau­ran­t’s own red wood­en boat or by pri­vate char­ter. We can incor­po­rate a lunch stop at Da Adol­fo into your itin­er­ary, with reser­va­tions orga­nized in advance by our team. It is par­tic­u­lar­ly pop­u­lar for guests who want an authen­tic, unhur­ried local lunch expe­ri­ence as part of their char­ter day.

  • Both are excel­lent, and the right choice depends on where you’re stay­ing and your pri­or­i­ties. Sor­ren­to is clos­er to Capri (35 – 50 min vs 75 – 90 min from Posi­tano) and offers a wider range of ves­sels in the har­bor. Posi­tano adds the Li Gal­li Islands to the nat­ur­al route and offers the incom­pa­ra­ble expe­ri­ence of depart­ing from one of Europe’s most visu­al­ly spec­tac­u­lar beach­es. For guests stay­ing in Posi­tano, depart­ing from there elim­i­nates any trans­fer — and the approach to Capri along the Sor­ren­to Penin­su­la’s south­ern coast is gen­uine­ly spectacular.

  • A Posi­tano sun­set char­ter is among the most sought-after expe­ri­ences on the entire Amal­fi Coast — and one of the most nat­u­ral­ly roman­tic set­tings in the world for a wed­ding pro­pos­al. The vil­lage faces west, and the late after­noon light turns the pas­tel facades from cream and peach to deep amber and rose over the course of an hour. From the water, the trans­for­ma­tion is even more the­atri­cal than from the shore. We typ­i­cal­ly depart around 5 – 5:30 PM, cruise toward the Li Gal­li Islands and back, and return as dusk falls. For guests plan­ning a pro­pos­al, we can arrange flow­ers, a pri­vate pho­tog­ra­ph­er on board, and a chilled bot­tle of cham­pagne ready at exact­ly the right moment — with noth­ing but open sea and the Amal­fi Coast glow­ing behind you.

  • Ves­sel capac­i­ty varies across our fleet. Tra­di­tion­al Gozzi and open speed­boats accom­mo­date 6 – 10 pas­sen­gers com­fort­ably for a full day. Larg­er yachts and cata­ma­rans in our fleet accom­mo­date up to 16 – 20 pas­sen­gers, mak­ing them ide­al for fam­i­ly groups or cel­e­bra­tion char­ters. The ves­sel does not need to be ful­ly occu­pied — many cou­ples and small groups of 2 – 4 choose a mid-size boat for the com­fort and deck space. Our team will rec­om­mend the best ves­sel for your group size and itinerary.