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#slackline – In his most creative stunt yet, Mich Kemeter does a slackline above the sea – using two Volvo Ocean Race yachts! 

When you're 27 meters up in the air, the wind whistling past your ears and gravity pulling heavy at your limbs, there's only one thing to do: walk the line. That's what Austrian professional slackline walker, Kemeter, did on December 28 at the Volvo Ocean Race stopover in Abu Dhabi.  Except he didn't quite make it....

Published in Ocean Race

THE RORC:

  • Established in 1925, The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) became famous for the biennial Fastnet Race and the international team event, the Admiral's Cup. It organises an annual series of domestic offshore races from its base in Cowes as well as inshore regattas including the RORC Easter Challenge and the IRC European Championship (includes the Commodores' Cup) in the Solent
  • The RORC works with other yacht clubs to promote their offshore races and provides marketing and organisational support. The RORC Caribbean 600, based in Antigua and the first offshore race in the Caribbean, has been an instant success. The 10th edition took place in February 2018. The RORC extended its organisational expertise by creating the RORC Transatlantic Race from Lanzarote to Grenada, the first of which was in November 2014
  • The club is based in St James' Place, London, but after a merger with The Royal Corinthian Yacht Club in Cowes now boasts a superb clubhouse facility at the entrance to Cowes Harbour and a membership of over 4,000