page_title: Yal (boat)
section_title: Six-oar yal
hierarchical_section_title: Yal (boat) / Six-oar yal
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Шестивесельные ялы на озере Болонь (1983 год)
context_page_description: Yal – Russian and Soviet Naval transom stern light weight rowing-boat with one removable mast and set with the sail. A small yal is sometimes called a yalik, the diminutive form of yal.
  Yals were used as life-boats, mooring boats, boat for kedge operations, supply boats, boat for works alongside the ship, boat for communication with the shore and for personnel transportation, small fishing boats since the 19th century.
  Yals are popular for sport and tourism purposes also.
  The six-oar, four-oar and two-oar yals have one mast used to support two quadlilateral standing split-lug sails. Wooden yals are constructed of oak keels, stem and stern posts, ash thwarts and gratings, and pine or laminated glued spruce strakes.
  Types of yals according to the materials used for the manufacture of distinguished, the last digit means the maximum quantity of oars:
  Wooden – ЯЛ-6, ЯЛ-4, ЯЛ-2
  Veneer – ЯЛШ-6, ЯЛШ-4, ЯЛШ-2
  Plastic – ЯЛП-6
  Alloy – ЯЛА-6
context_section_description: Length – 6.11 m
  Width – 1.85 m
  Maximum persons on board if winds not more than 5 points as per Beaufort scale, in areas closed from the waves: 
  Under oars – 13 persons
  Under sail – 8 persons in case weather not more than 5–6 per Boufort scale
  Yal-6 or six-oar yal – seaworthy boat is rigged with a split-lug sail on a single mast. Originally the yal-6 was made of wood, but since the late 1990s more commonly made of plastic. Propelled with oars, sails or outboard motor.
  This yal has the following parameters: length – 6,11 m, width – 1,85 m, height from keel to gunwale (amidships) – 0.91 m, weight 600–650 kg (wooden), 450–500 kg (plastic).
caption: "Yal-6", six-oars yal, on the shore of lake Bolon
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