Spanish law draws its line at five metres and fifteen horsepower. Below that threshold, under Real Decreto 875/2014, a vessel may be steered without any qualification at all, in daylight, within two nautical miles of the shore. That single clause is the reason a puerto banus boat rental no license exists at Pantalán 7, where hulls small enough to fall under the rule sit against the pontoons of one of the Mediterranean's most photographed marinas. The harbour itself is younger than most assume. José Banús, a Catalan developer, opened the port in May 1970, and the guest list — Prince Rainier, Grace Kelly, the Aga Khan — fixed its reputation within a single evening. The architect Noldi Schreck rejected the concrete towers rising elsewhere on the Costa del Sol. He specified low whitewashed blocks, tiled roofs and narrow lanes, an Andalusian pueblo assembled around 915 berths. The illusion holds. Sierra Blanca rises behind it, and La Concha, at 1,215 metres, closes the northern horizon. What the marina offers the small-boat visitor is geography. The coastline between Puerto Banús and the Guadalmina estuary runs shallow and sheltered, shielded from the Levante by the curve of the bay and from the Poniente by the mountains. Morning water here is often close to flat. Within the two-mile limit that governs unlicensed navigation — known locally as alquiler de barcos sin licencia — lie the beaches of Nueva Andalucía, the anchorage off Playa de Puerto Banús, and a stretch of coast where the Marbella skyline reads as a thin white band beneath grey rock. The self-drive fleet is a recent layer on an old idea. Fishing boats worked this shore long before the yachts arrived, when jábegas were hauled onto the sand by hand. Modern puerto banus boat rental no license tours return the wheel to the visitor, in fibreglass rather than pine. Rates at Pantalán 7 start from 100 EUR per boat per hour, excluding fuel and deposit. Engine power is capped by law, not by preference. Navigation is restricted to daylight, and the pontoons operate 09:00–21:00, seven days a week. Puerto Banús remains, at heart, a working harbour dressed as a village. Contemporary listings file these hires under puerto banus boat rental no license tickets, though nothing is torn at a turnstile: the transaction is a key, a briefing and a return time. The unlicensed tender is the least conspicuous vessel in the marina, and from the water it holds the better view.