Speaker’s Series – Ben Towill and Charlie Layton

The Daniel Island Community Speaker’s Series will resume on Wednesday evening, September 20, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the ballroom at the Daniel Island Club.  Our speakers will be Ben Towill and Charlie Layton who competed in the Talisker Atlantic Challenge by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic to raise money for The Green Heart Project, a local nonprofit that provides garden-based learning for seventeen local schools.

To most people, spending 40 days bobbing around in the Atlantic Ocean may not sound appealing, but for these two guys it was a shared dream come true.  Both have long been intrigued with the Talisker Whiskey Challenge which is generally regarded as “the world’s toughest row”.  Despite the fact that neither had prior rowing experience they toughened themselves up, purchased their 25-foot ocean rowboat, had some practice rows in the waters around Charleston, and set off from the Canary Islands on…