![]() “The Nationals are held in different places each year, and we trailer the boats to go and race. Bill is our tactician, and we owe a lot of our success – or maybe all of our success – to his dedication and talent.” “Most of our crew has been on the boat for 15 years, and Bill Heintz has been on the boat almost 20 years. She’s been on bow ever since.”ĭeviation has won the Bill Soverel Trophy, awarded each year to the winner of Soverel 33 Nationals, in 1997, ‘98, 2006, ’07, ’09 and ’10, and Iris attributes the boat’s success to her very faithful crew. That made her totally at ease on the water, although she didn’t come up and start crewing until she was 13. Sailing has always been a part of Ray’s life…she’s 19 and she’s done 17 Block Island Race Weeks! She was aboard when she was a baby and would be down below with her books, toys and sleeping bag. We only missed Race Week one year, when my daughter Ray was born. “I’ve done 25 Block Island Race Weeks with Deviation, and three before that. The Soverel is my third boat, not counting Lasers and frostbite dinghies.” Later, I was on another boat in the Stars & Stripes Regatta when a Soverel 33 passed us, and I knew I wanted one. There were two at Block Island Race Week a few years earlier, and they looked really nice. “I bought my Soverel 33, also named Deviation, in 1988. We found our way home, and I decided to name the boat Deviation.” We didn’t know very much about navigation, and we got lost because the stereo speakers messed up our compass. Thomas, and we sailed it back to New York. Thomas, and I found a buyer for it there. “I shipped it to the Caribbean and we did the Rolex Cup in St. “The first boat I owned was a Moore 24,” Iris continues. ![]() He would never lose his composure or his concentration, and he showed me that no matter where you end up you should always look forward and keep going…you’ll catch up most of the time!” Kerry is a very, very good sailor, but sometimes we would have a bad start and be far behind. Kerry opened the door for me to meet people and sail on other boats. I crewed for Kerry Klingler for several years, mostly frostbiting in Interclubs, but I also did bow on Kerry’s J/35 and a J/30 owned by one of his clients. “But I didn’t really learn how to sail until I was 20, when I took a course at the New York Sailing School in City Island. “I fell in love with sailing on a lake in Germany when I was 10 years old,” says Iris, who lives in New Rochelle, NY. A fiercely competitive sailor, Iris has won several national championships. Iris Vogel is among the nicest people we’ve ever met, but don’t let her friendly, gentle demeanor fool you.
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