Marina Piccola has anchored Sorrento's maritime commerce since the thirteenth century, when Aragonese traders docked beneath the tufa cliffs to load citrus and lacework bound for Naples. The protected harbour sits forty metres below the town centre, carved into volcanic rock and sheltered from scirocco winds by the Sorrentine Peninsula's western flank. Today the same stone quays serve a different cargo: day-trippers boarding traditional gozzo boats—flat-bottomed wooden vessels originally designed for net fishing in shallow coastal waters—to navigate the thirty-four kilometres of coastline between Sorrento and Salerno. Amalfi Coast boat tours from Sorrento depart daily from Marina Piccola between 08:00 and 19:00, tracing the SS163 coastal road's seaward mirror. The route passes Li Galli archipelago, three limestone islets where Nureyev kept a villa, before rounding Punta Campanella into the Gulf of Salerno. Positano's pastel cascade appears first: four hundred metres of vertical settlement clinging to Monte Comune, its dome of Santa Maria Assunta tiled in majolica visible from two kilometres offshore. Operators typically allocate ninety minutes for Positano stops, enough time to climb the hundred and eighty steps from Marina Grande to the upper town or browse linen boutiques along Via Cristoforo Colombo. Amalfi itself—the medieval republic that once minted its own currency and maintained trading posts from Tunis to Constantinople—occupies a narrower canyon. The Duomo di Sant'Andrea, rebuilt in the ninth century after Saracen raids, dominates the harbour approach with its Arab-Norman campanile and bronze doors cast in Constantinople in 1066. Most boat tours allocate two hours for Amalfi exploration, time to reach the Chiostro del Paradiso or sample sfusato lemons at the covered market. Between settlements, the coastline reveals what road travellers miss: sea caves hollowed by millennia of wave action, including the Grotta dello Smeraldo near Conca dei Marini, where submerged light refracts through forty metres of seawater to cast green luminescence on submerged stalagmites. Swimming stops occur in coves inaccessible by land—Fiordo di Furore, Baia di Ieranto—where Tyrrhenian clarity allows visibility to fifteen metres depth. Operators provision boats with limoncello, prosecco, and taralli, though the real refreshment is the temperature drop: even in August, offshore breezes cut the coastal humidity by half.