[1][3][4][5] The Yngling is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim.

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.

[3] 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.

[1][3] 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.