Welcome to Beaver Lake Sailing Club, we hope you enjoy our website. Our club
is dedicated to providing a family atmosphere and the enjoyment of sailing
in all forms. BLSC is a participatory club with racing, social, cruising,
and other sailing related activities which appeal to sailors of different
skills, experience, and interests.
Beaver Lake Sailing Club Board of Directors 2008
Dave Vanselow, a.k.a. "Spidey",
started sailing a century or so ago on his hometown lake in
Springfield, Illinois. He continues as a member of Island
Bay Yacht Club "up north" where he served three years on the
board there and brought his C&C "Wave" 26 down to Beaver
Lake when he and his wife Susan built a home in Lost Bridge
Village (five minutes from BLSC) in 2002. You can ask him
how he got the "Spidey" moniker....but bring an extra " brew
for the crew" to Dock One.
Gaylon enjoys racing his green J-24 (Kermit). His crew have
proved to be formidable opponents in the 2004, 2005, 2006,
and 2007 racing season.
Jimmie “Fish Hawk” White has been
racing with the club since the late ‘90’s, joined BLSC as an
associate member and became a full member in late 2001. He
is an active (obsessed) racer aboard the other J24...
“Jaded”.... Run by his wife, Sue, “the Admiral”. Upon
occasion they get to sneak off to the BVI or the Key’s for a
bareboat charter.
In Sept. of ’05, Jimmie and Sue bought a log cabin, just a
block past the club. Jimmie oversees the management of the
cabin as a vacation rental. When it’s not rented Jimmie and
Sue enjoy logging time there watching the deer and the
eagles from the screened porch overlooking the cove.
The
club’s resident spin doctor, Stew enjoys getting away from
the hot air at the
capitol in favor of the fair winds of
Beaver
Lake.
A regular around the camp fire
& a devout cruiser, he does crew when we race around the
barrels.
Just
don’t be surprised when he’s at a Razorback game in the
Fall!
Tom enjoys sailing his Laguna 30 and
racing his Merit 25. He shares his sailing dream with his
lovely wife Susan. They live in Elkins, Arkansas and enjoy taking trips
to the Caribbean and bare boating. Tom is also a member of the
Beaver Lake
Sail and Power Squadron.
Bruce retired to NW Arkansas in 2005 from Northport, NY, a
small town on the north shore of Long Island.
While living there he raced a J/24 and a J/34c out of
Northport Yacht
Club.
He and his wife Susan, a native Arkansan, live in
Fayetteville, are dedicated Razorback fans, and own the
Catalina 27
Suee.
Bruce now chooses to race on other people’s boats while Sue
relaxes with a book on
Suee.
When Bruce is not at the lake, you can usually find him on
the Stonebridge
Meadows Golf Course in Fayetteville.
Mike has
been a member of the Beaver Lake Sailing Club for over 5
years. My wife Robin and son Dominic love the sailing
lifestyle. We started with a Catalina 22 and in 2003 we made
a quantum leap to a Hunter 34. When I'm not sailing, I enjoy
doing
segmented bowl
work on a wood lathe.
Our family enjoyed
bare-boating the BVI in April of 2006,
2007, and we have plans to return in March of 2008
