Albert Park · Sprint weekend · Year three onboard
Our third year in Melbourne, and the busiest yet. MISCHIEF, the largest yacht you can charter in Australia, sits in Docklands for race week. We throw the party of the weekend on Saturday night, and spend every other session of the week hosting yours.
Sprint Saturday · 3 April 2027
For the first time, Saturday has a race of its own. The sprint runs at midday, qualifying follows, and then Docklands gets loud. We started this party in 2025, sold it out in 2026, and have been planning 2027 since about 1am that night.
DJs and live acts on deck, food and drinks from our crew, and a crowd that comes straight from Albert Park. Daylight saving ends at 3am, so everyone gets an extra hour’s sleep before lights out on Sunday. You’re welcome.
Admit one · Sprint Saturday
No payment today. Requests aren’t guaranteed and 2026 sold out, so get yours in early.
The 2026 Ahoy Club Afterparty
Private charter · Wednesday 31 March to Sunday 4 April
Outside Saturday night, MISCHIEF is yours by the session: pre-track, daytime or post-track, any day of race week. Take one, or take three in a row and run your whole weekend from the water. The race times are in there too, so you can plan around the track. Tap a session to see what works in it.
Wed 31 Mar · Pre-track · 7:30am – 11am
Breakfast panels, pre-race conferences or a partner briefing. Coffee on the aft deck, talks in the main saloon, finished before the first session on track.
No racing yet, so nothing clashes. The easiest day to get senior people in one room.
Pre-track, daytime or post-track
Race week is the one weekend your clients, partners and half your industry are in the same city and in a good mood. Here’s how each session on MISCHIEF gets used.
Pre-track · 7:30am – 11am
Breakfast panels, pre-race conferences, a product launch or a team briefing. Airwallex and Airtasker both hosted mornings onboard in 2026, and the photos say it better than we can.
Coffee and breakfast on the aft deck, a stage and screen in the main saloon, and you’re done before the first session on track. Your guests are a short walk from the city when it wraps.
Daytime · 12pm – 4pm
Take the long way: out of Docklands, down the bay past Station Pier and along the St Kilda foreshore, with lunch on deck. Or stay at the Docklands berth and let people come to you.
Hardly any superyachts charter in Melbourne, so a 54m Baglietto in the middle of the city gets noticed, by your guests and by everyone walking past.
Post-track · 6:30pm – 10:30pm
This is where we go all out. Full styling, your brand on every surface that will take it, a band on the aft deck, a chef’s menu built around your guests. Want a car onboard? We crane it on. We’ve done it many times now and it still stops people on the promenade.
Post-track sessions · the party trick
Launching a car? Bring it. We lift it on by crane in the morning, style the deck around it, and your guests walk onboard to find it waiting.
The venue
We took MISCHIEF back to bare metal for her 2024 refit, and the decks, bars and sound system were rebuilt for exactly this kind of week. A full-beam main saloon for talks and dinners, a sky lounge for the smaller room, and an aft deck that takes a band, a dance floor or a car.
Who’s been onboard
“I would give Ahoy Club 10 stars if I could! We hosted a private corporate event aboard MISCHIEF for race week, and the experience was exceptional. The team handled numerous last-minute requests and changes with grace, professionalism and efficiency.”
Corporate host · Melbourne Race Week
Quick answers
Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 April 2027 at Albert Park. It’s round 3 of the season and a sprint weekend, so Friday has sprint qualifying, Saturday has the sprint and qualifying, and the main race is on Sunday 4 April.
Saturday 3 April 2027, 7:30pm to 11:30pm, onboard MISCHIEF in Docklands. Request tickets on this page and we’ll come back to you before tickets go on public sale. 2026 sold out, so get your request in early.
Yes. Every pre-track, daytime and post-track session from Wednesday 31 March to Sunday 4 April is open for private charter, apart from Saturday night. Book one session or several in a row.
At her berth in Docklands, in the middle of Melbourne and easy for guests to reach from the city. Daytime sessions can cruise down Port Phillip to St Kilda and back.
Ahoy Days is part of Ahoy Club, our day-charter brand in Australia. Its page lists MISCHIEF’s race-week sessions with per-guest prices and menus. Ahoy Club runs and sells the Saturday party, and plans the bigger corporate and brand events here. Same team, same yacht.
Give us the session, roughly how many guests and what you want them to remember. Our events team comes back with a plan for styling, menu and timings.
