{{Short description|Sailboat class}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Use British English|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox sailboat specifications |name = Yngling |insignia = Yngling insigna.png |insignia size = 100px |insignia alt = |insignia caption = |line drawing = File:Yngling (keelboat).svg |line size = |line alt = |line caption = |image boat = |image size = |image alt = |image caption =

|designer = Jan Herman Linge |architect = |location = Norway |year = 1967 |no built = 4,500 |design = |class = |brand = |builder = O'Day Corp.<br>Abbott Boats<br>Børresen Bådebyggeri<br>Mader Bootswerft<br>Jibetech<br>Petticrows |role =

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|hulls = |hull type = monohull |construction = fibreglass |loa = {{convert|20.83|ft|m|abbr=on}} |loh = |lwl = {{convert|15.42|ft|m|abbr=on}} |beam = {{convert|5.67|ft|m|abbr=on}} |hull draft = |hull weight = |engine =

|appendages = |keel type = swept fin keel |ballast = {{convert|683|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} |rudder type = internally-mounted spade-type rudder

|rigs = |rig type = Bermuda rig |I = {{convert|18.70|ft|m|abbr=on}} |J = {{convert|6.56|ft|m|abbr=on}} |P = {{convert|22.31|ft|m|abbr=on}} |E = {{convert|8.53|ft|m|abbr=on}} |mast length = |rig other =

|sails = |sailplan = fractional rigged sloop |sailarea main = {{convert|95.15|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} |sailarea headsail = {{convert|61.34|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} |sailarea spin = {{convert|180|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} |sailarea gen = |sails other = |sailarea upwind = |sailarea downwind = |sailarea total = {{convert|156.49|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}

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The '''Yngling''' is a sailboat that was designed by Norwegian Jan Herman Linge as a one design racer and first built in 1967.<ref name="Data">{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/yngling|title= Yngling sailboat |access-date= 13 November 2020|last= McArthur| first= Bruce |work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2020|archive-url= https://archive.today/20201113155946/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/yngling|archive-date= 13 November 2020 |url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/designer/linge-jan|title= Jan Linge 1922 - 2007 |access-date = 13 November 2020|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2020|archive-url= https://archive.today/20201113154826/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/linge-jan|archive-date= 13 November 2020 |url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="Sherwood">Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 108-109. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. {{ISBN|0-395-65239-1}}</ref>

The Yngling design is very similar to the larger 1966 Linge-designed Soling.<ref name="Sherwood"/>

==Production== In the past the design was built by Abbott Boats in Canada, the O'Day Corp. and Jibetech in the United States as well as Petticrows in the United Kingdom. It remains in production at Børresen Bådebyggeri in Denmark and by Mader Bootswerft in Germany.<ref name="Data"/><ref name="Sherwood"/><ref name="BB">{{cite web|url= http://www.borresen.com/yngling/|title= BB Yngling|access-date= 13 November 2020|author= Børresen Bådebyggeri |work= borresen.com|archive-url= https://archive.today/20201113161444/http://www.borresen.com/yngling/|archive-date= 13 November 2020|url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="Mader">{{cite web|url= https://www.mader-boote.de/neue-boote/yngling/|title= Yngling|access-date= 13 November 2020|author= Mader Bootswerft |work= mader-boote.de|archive-url= https://archive.today/20201113161602/https://www.mader-boote.de/neue-boote/yngling/|archive-date= 13 November 2020|url-status= live}}</ref>

==Design== thumb|left|Yngling The Yngling is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminium spars. The hull has a spooned raked stem, a raised counter reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a swept fixed fin keel. It displaces {{convert|1323|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} and carries {{convert|683|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} of lead ballast.<ref name="Data"/><ref name="Sherwood"/>

The boat has a draft of {{convert|3.44|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the standard keel.<ref name="Data"/>

The design has a small cuddy cabin for stowage.<ref name="Sherwood"/>

For sailing the design is equipped with a {{convert|180|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} spinnaker, an end-boom mainsheet, foam buoyancy and sail windows for visibility.<ref name="Sherwood"/>

==Operational history== [[File:Bådtype Yngling.JPG|thumb|left|A moored Yngling showing the hull shape and cuddy cabin]] The design is supported by a class club, the ''International Yngling Association'', with national clubs in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United States and Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/association/yngling-class-int|title= Yngling Class (INT)|access-date = 13 November 2020|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2020|archive-url= https://archive.today/20201113154937/https://sailboatdata.com/association/yngling-class-int|archive-date= 13 November 2020 |url-status= live}}</ref>

The Yngling received ISAF International status in 1979 and was chosen as the Olympic Women's Keelboat for the 2004 and the 2008 Summer Olympics. The Yngling was replaced by the Elliott 6m for the London 2012 Summer Olympics.<ref name="Data"/><ref name="Sherwood"/>

In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood wrote, "Jan Linge also designed the larger Soling, and the lines are very similar ... The Yngling is highly stable, with a beam-to-waterline ratio of .37 and with 50 percent of the weight in ballast. It is unsinkable, with foam-filled tanks. Sail area is not large, so that the boat may be sailed by younger sailors. While one-design rules are strict, every effort has been made to keep the cost of allowable modifications down."<ref name="Sherwood"/>

==Events== {{Main|List of World Championships medalists in sailing (keelboat classes)#Yngling}}

==See also== *List of sailing boat types *Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Yngling *Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Yngling

'''Related development''' *Soling

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons category}} *[http://www.borresen.com/yngling/ Børresen Bådebyggeri official website] *[https://www.mader-boote.de/neue-boote/yngling/ Mader Bootswerft official website]

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