Jan Herman Linge
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Jan Herman Linge (born January 28, 1922 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian engineer and boat designer. He is son of Martin Linge, known for his war effort in Kompani Linge.
Linge was head engineer from 1949 to 1956 in Westermoen Båtbyggeri og Mek Verksted, and was responsible for the design of the Tjeld class patrol boat.
He later started his own boat design house, Jan H. Linge A/S, and has designed many recreational vessel for companies like Draco, Fjord and Windy.
He was also a very active designer of sail boats. The Soling was seleced as Olympic class in 1968, and participated in 8 Olympic games. The Yngling became an international class in 1979, and an Olympic class in the Athens Olympics in 2004.
The designs by Linge are known by the "ling" suffix, such as Brisling, Firling, Fjordling, Gambling 34, Lærling, Mekling, Smiling, Wesling and Willing.
A total of about 10.000 motor vessels and 10.000 sailing vessels of Linge design has been built.
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