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Designed in Norway in 1967 by Jan Linge (see also Soling), who wanted to create a keelboat for his son, the Yngling is named after the word for "youngster" in Norwegian. The Yngling was adopted as an ISAF class in 1979 and is now well-established in eleven countries around the world, with more than 4,000 boats produced. It was the Olympic women's keelboat in the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece and the 2008 Games in China. The Yngling can plane like a dinghy, making it both fun and competitive, and it does not often capsize. A three-person boat, it is raced with a combined crew weight of approximately 450 to 500 lbs. With its small size, the Yngling is considered the "little sister" of the Soling, a former Olympic class, which Linge had designed three years earlier. The Yngling is an International Sailing Federation (ISAF) Olympic Class. For more information, read the Yngling Wikipedia article.