WESTERN Australia's pre-eminent yachtsman Rolly Tasker has died at his home on the Mandurah canals on Friday at 2am after an illness. Roland Leslie Tasker, born in Perth on March 21, 1926, was ...

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Tasker, then 30, had been sailing and building his own boats since he was 10 years old and already had a reputation as a giant-killer in his home town of Perth, but West Australian yachtsmen in those ...