So I said, ‘Let’s just get on a plane and go and do a road trip’.” The couple then travelled from Australia to see the yachts available first hand. “We started looking at the bigger one to move home to Australia and we were looking online and this was going on for weeks, months, and looking at all the pretty pictures online just isn’t the same. Larissa, his wife, remembers the process of purchasing a vessel based in Europe. “I wanted to upgrade to a 100ft boat, I missed it, went to buy a 120ft, missed it. As chance would have it, Ian missed buying the 100ft vessel that he was initially interested in and fate brought a larger one into their sights. “In 2003, I bought a 22m Princess, which in Sydney Harbour was considered a pretty big boat at the time, but on the European scale, that’s quite funny.” The Maloufs held on to the Princess for more than a decade before deciding to sell for something bigger. “Our families have had boats all our lives, from a little tin dingy upwards,” begins Ian Malouf. Mischief, launched in 2006, is a 54m Baglietto, originally designed by Francesco Paszkowski and now owned by the Malouf family. So when I met the owners of M/Y Mischief I couldn’t help but be intrigued. The name of a yacht, the story that inspired it and the owners who chose it always brings out the curiosity in me. The Superyacht Report sits down with the family aboard their 54m M/Y Mischief to find out more.

Mischief Makers The Malouf family are seasoned yacht owners who are determined to shake up the charter game.

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