Charleston Surfer Justin Schaay Places 2nd in South Africa's Dusi Canoe Marathon—on a Paddle Board

Top photograph courtesy of Dusi Canoe Marathon

This February, while most of us were shivering and wishing for warm weather, one Charleston man was in the warm summer heat of the Southern Hemisphere, in South Africa, attempting one of the most difficult, grueling, and storied whitewater river races of all time, the Dusi Canoe Marathon...on a stand-up paddle board.