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Yngling Sailboat Parts and Equipment
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Yngling Sailboat Parts and Equipment
Class Description
Yngling Triplehanded Keelboat The Yngling is designed to sail with three crew (although two can handle it easily). Optimal crew weight is 400 to 500 lbs., so the Yngling accommodates both juniors and normally sized adults, and it is the ideal women's racing boat (in fact, IYRU selected the Yngling for its first International Women's Championship in 1994, and ISAF chose it as the boat for the 2004 Olympic women's keelboat event). Sail controls on the Yngling are easy to manage, and the effects of small adjustments are felt by the crew. The Yngling sails in a delicate and fast upwind groove. In 1990 Jan Linge re-designed the interior of the Yngling, giving it a water-tight, raised, "double-bottom" cockpit sole. With "Elvstrøm" bailers on port and starboard just above the waterline, the boat drains water quickly under sail, upwind and downwind. The Yngling is unsinkable: Class rules mandate that a boat have enough styrofoam flotation so that, if filled entirely with water, an Yngling can still float -- with three crew aboard! In a nutshell, the Yngling is a sleek and seaworthy small racing keelboat, succinctly described as an agreeable cross between a planing dinghy and a keelboat. Its design is classic, and its construction is durable.
Class Specs
| Criteria | Imperial | Metric |
| Draft (ft/m) | 3.5 | 1 |
| Beam (ft/m) | 5.5 | 1.6 |
| LOA (ft/m) | 20.3 | 6 |
| Jib Area (ft2/m2) | 55 | 5 |
| Mainsail Area (ft2/m2) | 95 | 8.8 |
| Spinnaker Area (ft2/m2) | 180 | 17 |
| Weight (lbs/kg) | 1320 | 599 |