Yngling (keelboat)
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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">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Sherwood">Sherwood, Richard M.: A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition, pages 108-109. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Template:ISBN</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">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Mader">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Design
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 Template:Convert and carries Template:Convert of lead ballast.<ref name="Data"/><ref name="Sherwood"/>
The boat has a draft of Template:Convert 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 Template:Convert spinnaker, an end-boom mainsheet, foam buoyancy and sail windows for visibility.<ref name="Sherwood"/>
Operational history
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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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
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See also
- List of sailing boat types
- Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Yngling
- Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Yngling
Related development
References
External links
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- 21-foot keelboats
- 1960s sailboat type designs
- Sailing yachts
- Yngling (keelboat)
- Classes of World Sailing
- Olympic sailing classes
- Sailboat type designs by Jan Herman Linge
- Sailboat types built by Abbott Boats
- Sailboat types built by O'Day Corp.
- Sailboat types built by Børresen Bådebyggeri
- Sailboat types built by Jibetech
- Sailboat types built by Mader Bootswerft
- Sailboat types built by Petticrows