The Yngling is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim. It has a fractionalsloop rig with aluminum 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 1,323 lb (600 kg) and carries 683 lb (310 kg) of lead ballast.[1][3]
The boat has a draft of 3.44 ft (1.05 m) with the standard keel.[1]
For sailing the design is equipped with a 180 sq ft (17 m2) spinnaker, an end-boommainsheet, foam buoyancy and sail windows for visibility.[3]
Operational history
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.[6]
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."[3]
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