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Route · 7 days · round-tripYacht charter route · Amalfi

Salerno round-trip.

Round-trip from Salerno: sail Vietri, Maiori, Amalfi and Sorrento, then cross the Bay of Naples to Ischia before looping back via Cetara. Seven days.

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Vietri sul Mare
Day 1

Salerno → Vietri sul Mare

A short four-mile hop west to ease into the charter, then an afternoon among Vietri's ceramic workshops above the old harbour.

Distance

2 NM

Sailing

~0.4h at 5 kn

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Best season

May – mid-October (peak Jun – Sep)

Duration

7 days

Departure

Salerno

Sailing area

Amalfi

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Day 1 / 7
Vietri sul Mare
1
Day 1

Salerno → Vietri sul Mare

The first leg barely counts as a passage. Four miles out of Marina d'Arechi, hugging the coast, and you're off Vietri sul Mare before anyone has finished their coffee. That's the point: a gentle warm-up to check the reefing lines and the tender before the real distances begin. Vietri is where Amalfi ceramics begin. Walk up from the little marina and the Corso is stacked with small studios, most still firing their own kilns out the back. One of the classic local motifs is the ciucciariello, a stubby painted donkey you'll see on everything from egg cups to house numbers. Ask and a potter will often let you throw a small piece yourself. We usually tie up early and spend the whole afternoon ashore. Come evening, a plate of scialatielli and a glass of Falanghina on the quay is about right.

Things to do

Throw your own bowl at a Corso studio

Find the majolica dome of San Giovanni Battista

Scialatielli with seafood at a harbour trattoria

Evening gelato along the seafront walk

Mooring tip

The little Marina di Vietri takes you stern-to for around €40-60 and shelters you from the northerlies, but berths are few and fill by mid-afternoon in season. If it's full, Marina d'Arechi four miles back has proper services and always has room.

Maiori
2
Day 2

Vietri → Maiori

Maiori has the one thing the rest of this coast lacks: real sand, close to a kilometre of it, running flat behind a proper breakwater. After the vertical villages further west, it feels almost roomy. The marina sits inside the mole, so you can walk straight off the pontoon into a beach town that never got too glossy. Break the passage at Minori, a mile short. Drop the hook on sand in four to six metres and swim before lunch while the anchorage is still quiet. Ashore, Sal De Riso is the reason people come: the delizia al limone, a dome of sponge and lemon cream built on the local sfusato, is worth the queue. Between the two towns runs the old Sentiero dei Limoni, a stepped path through terraced groves. Worth doing early, before the sun gets on it.

Things to do

Anchor and swim off Minori's sand

Queue for a delizia al limone at Sal De Riso

Walk the Sentiero dei Limoni to Minori

See the Roman villa ruins at Minori

Mooring tip

Maiori's marina berths you stern-to inside the breakwater for roughly €70-120 and holds well against the prevailing northerlies. Use Minori only as a daytime anchorage on sand in four to six metres; it's open to the south and no place to spend the night.

Amalfi
3
Day 3

Minori → Amalfi

This is the town the whole coast is named for, and it wears it well. The harbour is small and gets busy, so we like to be alongside by late morning before the day boats swing in. From the quay it's a two-minute walk to Piazza Duomo and the long flight of steps up to the Cathedral of Sant'Andrea, its front a bold stripe of Arab-Norman stonework. Amalfi made its money on paper and on the sea. The Museo della Carta, up the valley in an old mill, still turns rag into sheets on medieval gear. On the way in, detour to Conca dei Marini and tender into the Grotta dello Smeraldo, where light comes up through a submerged opening and turns the water green. Go mid-morning; the colour flattens once the sun climbs.

Things to do

Climb to the Cathedral of Sant'Andrea

See the Cloister of Paradise beside the Duomo

Watch paper made at the Museo della Carta

Tender into the Grotta dello Smeraldo

Mooring tip

Porto di Amalfi is tight and priced to match, up to €100-180 in July and August, so book the berth days ahead rather than hoping for a gap. If nothing's free you can anchor outside on sand in six to eight metres and run the tender in, weather permitting.

Sorrento
4
Day 4

Conca → Sorrento

The longest run of the west coast, and the prettiest. Leave the mooring by nine and you can afford to slow down off Positano, where the town stacks up the hillside in ochre and pink. There's a buoy field below the beach; pick one up, swim, and have lunch aboard rather than fight for a table ashore. Past Positano the Li Galli islands sit low off the point, once owned by the dancer Rudolf Nureyev. Round Punta Campanella and the water changes character as you leave the Amalfi side for the Sorrentine peninsula. Marina Piccola di Sorrento is a ten-minute climb below the old town. Book a table at Donna Sofia for gnocchi alla Sorrentina, then take the sunset from the terrace of the Foreigners' Club above the harbour.

Things to do

Swim off Positano from a lunch buoy

Gnocchi alla Sorrentina at Donna Sofia

Aperitivo on the Foreigners' Club terrace

Wander Sorrento's Marina Grande fishing quarter

Mooring tip

Marina Piccola takes you stern-to for around €100-160 in high season and sits well tucked from the northerly winds. It's open to the south, though, so if a libeccio is forecast overnight, ask the marineros for an inside berth or move on.

Naples
5
Day 5

Sorrento → Naples

Twenty miles of open bay, usually a straightforward reach with Vesuvius filling the view off the starboard bow the whole way. If the crew wants a last swim before the city, drop in at Marechiaro on the Posillipo shore, a fishermen's cove that gave Naples one of its old songs. Mergellina is the practical berth, central and well connected, with Castel dell'Ovo and the Lungomare a kilometre east along the waterfront. Naples rewards walking more than it rewards a marina. Head up into Spaccanapoli, the dead-straight old street that cuts the historic centre, and eat a margherita at Sorbillo where the queue is part of the ritual. Ten minutes off that street, Pio Monte della Misericordia still hangs Caravaggio's Seven Works of Mercy in the church it was painted for.

Things to do

Swim at Marechiaro before the city

Margherita at Sorbillo on Via dei Tribunali

Caravaggio at Pio Monte della Misericordia

Evening walk the Lungomare to Castel dell'Ovo

Mooring tip

Mergellina berths you stern-to for around €80-130 and is protected from the north, with taxis and the metro close by. For a better position under Castel dell'Ovo, try Borgo Marinari instead; there are fewer slots, so call ahead in season.

Casamicciola Terme
6
Day 6

Naples → Casamicciola Terme

Ischia is the bigger, greener, more lived-in cousin of Capri, and it runs on hot water. The whole island is volcanic, and springs feed thermal parks and bays all the way round. Casamicciola Terme on the north coast is the old spa harbour and the handiest place to leave the boat, though Forio and little Sant'Angelo on the south make good alternatives if the wind sits wrong. Spend the afternoon at the Giardini Poseidon above Forio, a hillside of thermal pools at different temperatures, day pass about €35. If the crew has legs left, the walk up Monte Epomeo takes a couple of hours and opens a view back over the whole bay to Capri. Eat coniglio all'ischitana, the island's slow rabbit stew, at a vineyard trattoria inland.

Things to do

Soak the pools at Giardini Poseidon

Hike Monte Epomeo for the bay view

Coniglio all'ischitana at an inland vineyard

Swim the hot springs at Sorgeto bay

Mooring tip

Casamicciola berths you stern-to for roughly €60-100, handy for the thermal port but open to the north. If a tramontana is forecast, shift round to Forio or onto the buoys off Sant'Angelo on the island's sheltered southern side.

Cetara
7
Day 7

Ischia → Salerno

The last day is the big one: thirty-two miles back down the coast, so we like to slip the lines by eight and settle into the passage while it's still cool. It's a long reach past the whole Amalfi shoreline you sailed out along, seen this time from further offshore. Cetara makes the natural lunch stop. It's a working fishing village, less made-up than its neighbours, and it still produces colatura di alici, the amber anchovy sauce that descends straight from Roman garum. Order spaghetti dressed with it at a harbour trattoria; a few drops carry the whole plate. From Cetara it's a short hop to Marina d'Arechi. Refuel at the entrance berth, give the boat a rinse, and hand her back with the Lungomare and an aperitivo waiting.

Things to do

Spaghetti alla colatura at a Cetara trattoria

Visit a colatura di alici workshop

Refuel at the Marina d'Arechi fuel berth

Farewell aperitivo on the Lungomare Trieste

Mooring tip

Marina d'Arechi is the full-service base and takes you stern-to for around €100-160 in peak weeks, with fuel, water and easy road access for the handover. Top up at the fuel berth by the entrance before you go to your slip, not the morning you leave in a hurry.

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